1895 in South Africa

	1895 in South Africa
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List of years in South Africa

Events

April

• 13 – The first electrical street lights in Cape Town are switched on.

June

• 11 – Britain annexes Tongaland, between Zululand and Mozambique.

December

• 15 – The railways of the Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange Free State, the South African Republic and southern Mozambique are all linked at Union Junction near Alberton, completing the logistics supply lines for the British military invasion of the Boer Republics in the Second Boer War.^[1]
• 29 – The Jameson Raid is launched when Leander Starr Jameson and his forces cross into Transvaal from Bechuanaland.

Unknown date

• St. Lucia Game Reserve, 30 km north of the town St. Lucia is proclaimed.
• The Hluhluwe Game Reserve is proclaimed.
• The Umfolozi Game Reserve is proclaimed.

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 1 December – Natal – Charlestown to Natal-Transvaal border, 2 miles 45 chains (4.1 kilometres).^[1]
• 15 December – Transvaal – Natal-Transvaal border to Union Junction near Alberton, 157 miles (252.7 kilometres).^[1]

Locomotives

• Pauling and Company places the first of forty-two 4-4-0 American type 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge locomotives in service on the Beira Railway in Mozambique. In 1915 thirteen of these locomotives, later classified Class NG6 on the SAR, will be acquired by the Union Defence Force for use in South Africa to replace locomotives that will be commandeered for the war effort in German South West Africa during World War I.^[2][3][4]

References

1. Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 183, ref. no. 200954-13
2. Baxter, Antony. The Two Foot Gauge Enigma (1st ed.). Plateway Press. pp. 37-45 & Appendix V. ISBN 1-871980-34-8.
3. Railway Modelling Scene, South Africa, May/June 1985, article written by Neill Mardell
4. Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 103–104. ISBN 0869772112.