1870 in South Africa

	1870 in South Africa
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List of years in South Africa

Events

• 30 July – Klipdrift Republic is proclaimed by a group of diamond miners with the Stafford Parker as their President
• The Alfred Basin in Table Bay Harbour, named after Prince Alfred, is completed.^[1][2][3]

Births

• 24 May – Jan Christiaan Smuts, South African statesman and soldier, is born near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony.
• 10 September – Gabriël Gideon Cillié, a professor and member of the head committee of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurverenigings.

Deaths

• 11 March – King Moshoeshoe I, considered the father of the Basotho people who established Lesotho.

Railways

Locomotives

• A second locomotive is at work on excavation and breakwater construction in Table Bay Harbour, a 0-4-0 saddle-tank engine believed to have been built by Hughes's Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works and delivered to the Cape at some time between 1863 and 1870.^[4][5]

References

1. Holland, D.F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways, Volume 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. pp. 115–117. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
2. History of Cape Town: The growth of the city and the port
3. South Africa’s Yesterdays, The Reader’s Digest Association South Africa (Pty.) Limited, 1981, (Editor Peter Joyce), p171, ISBN 0 620 05019 5
4. The Cape Argus of 19 July 1870.
5. Dating the opening of Hughes Works