1893 in South Africa

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Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Henry Brougham Loch.
Governor of the Colony of Natal:
- until July: Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell.
- July–September : Francis Seymour Haden
- starting 27 September: Walter Hely-Hutchinson.
State President of the Orange Free State: Francis William Reitz.
State President of the South African Republic: Paul Kruger.
Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Cecil John Rhodes.
Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Sir John Robinson

30 April – Johannes Willem Viljoen, big-game hunter and politician, dies on his farm near Zeerust at the age of 81.
23 June – Sir Theophilus Shepstone, South African statesman. (b. 1817)
9 July – George Christopher Cato, the first mayor of Durban, dies at the age of 79.

The Cape Government Railways places the first of forty 6th Class 4-6-0 passenger steam locomotives in service on its Western and Midland Systems. They will become the Class 6 on the South African Railways in 1912.^[2]^[3]

The first of an eventual 175 46 Tonner 0-6-4 tank steam locomotives are placed in service by the Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. The survivors will become the Class B on the South African Railways in 1912.^[2]^[4]

^ ^a ^b 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
^ ^a ^b Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 1: 1859–1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 44–45, 57, 113–117, 126. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
^ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 41–44. ISBN 0869772112.
^ Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.