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1908 in South Africa

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1908
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South Africa
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The following lists events that happened during1908 inSouth Africa.

Incumbents

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Events

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January
  • 30 –Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison byJan Smuts after having been tried and sentenced to 2 months in prison earlier in the month.
March
October
  • 7 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested inVolksrust, along with fifteen otherIndians, for enteringTransvaal without registration certificates and is sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labor.
November
Unknown date
  • Bosman de Ravelli composes the firstAfrikaans art song

Births

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Deaths

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Railways

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Railway lines opened

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CGR NG 4-6-2T Pacific
  • 4 January – Cape Eastern – West Bank, Buffalo Harbour to Chiselhurst, 4 miles 35 chains (7.1 kilometres).[1]
  • 6 February – Transvaal –Machadodorp toBreyten, 55 miles 3 chains (88.6 kilometres).[2]
  • 8 April – Free State – Hamilton toBeaconsfield (Cape), 99 miles 52 chains (160.4 kilometres).[2]
  • 28 May – Cape Western –Milnerton toAscot, 2 miles (3.2 kilometres).[2]
  • 3 June – Natal – Esperanza toDonnybrook (Narrow gauge), 94 miles (151.3 kilometres).[2]

Locomotives

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References

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  1. ^Report for year ending 31 December 1909, Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909.
  2. ^abcdStatement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 186, ref. no. 200954-13
  3. ^Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985).Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 113, 156.ISBN 0869772112.
  4. ^Dulez, Jean A. (2012).Railways of Southern Africa 150 Years (Commemorating One Hundred and Fifty Years of Railways on the Sub-Continent – Complete Motive Power Classifications and Famous Trains – 1860–2011) (1st ed.). Garden View, Johannesburg, South Africa: Vidrail Productions. p. 232.ISBN 9 780620 512282.
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