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See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during1912 in South Africa.

• Monarch: KingGeorge V.
• Governor-General andHigh Commissioner for Southern Africa:The Viscount Gladstone.^[1]
• Prime Minister:Louis Botha.
• Chief Justice:John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers

January

• 1 – The South African Railways implements the reclassification and renumbering of the rolling stock of its three constituent Colonial railways, theCape Government Railways, theNatal Government Railways and theCentral South African Railways.^[2][3]
• 4 – The outbreak ofsmallpox is reported in the Malay Location,Johannesburg.
• 8 – TheSouth African Native National Congress (now ANC) is formed inBloemfontein andJohn Langalibalele Dube becomes the first president.
• 16 – Cases of smallpox are discovered inDurban.

February

• 15 – TheMkuze Game Reserve is proclaimed a protected area.

March

• The shield of the coat of arms on theRed Ensign used in South Africais redesigned to include a white roundel.

July

• 1 – TheUnion Defence Forces, comprising a Permanent Force and a Citizen Force, were established.
• 1 – Brig GenHenry Lukin appointed Inspector-General of the Permanent Force.
• 1 – Brig GenChristian Frederick Beyers appointed Commandant-General of the Citizen Force.

Unknown date

• The town ofHobhouse is established and named afterEmily Hobhouse.

• 12 March –John Fairbairn, naval officer, (d. 1984)
• 18 May –Walter Sisulu, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2003)

• 21 May –Julius Wernher, financier and mine magnate. (b. 1850)

• 7 February – Free State – Jammerdrif toWepener, 4 miles 7 chains (6.6 kilometres).^[4]
• 15 April – Transvaal – Buhrmannsdrif toOttoshoop, 11 miles 70 chains (19.1 kilometres).^[4]
• 1 May – Free State – Firham (Transvaal) toVrede, 44 miles 69 chains (72.2 kilometres).^[4]
• 20 May – Cape –Wolseley toCeres, 10 miles 29 chains (16.7 kilometres).^[4]
• 1 August – Cape – Malenge to Franklin, 24 miles 49 chains (39.6 kilometres).^[4]
• 4 November – Transvaal –Zeerust toOttoshoop, 18 miles 72 chains (30.4 kilometres).^[4]
• 9 November – Transvaal – Newington toTzaneen, 132 miles 21 chains (212.9 kilometres).^[4]
• 2 December – Cape – Schoombee toHofmeyr, 31 miles 3 chains (50.0 kilometres).^[4]
• 2 December – Cape –Ottery toDieprivier, 2 miles 50 chains (4.2 kilometres).^[4]
• 16 December – Cape –Bergrivier toVredenburg (Narrow gauge), 24 miles 48 chains (39.6 kilometres).^[4]
• 20 December – Cape – Melk to Motkop, 10 miles 31 chains (16.7 kilometres).^[4]

Five new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on theSouth African Railways (SAR):

• January – A singleClass ME2-6-6-2 simple expansion Mallet articulated locomotive.^[5][6]
• TenClass MC2-6-6-0 Mallet articulatedcompound steam locomotives.^[5][6]
• TenClass 3B 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotives that had been ordered by the Natal Government Railways the year before.^[6]
• Four "Enlarged Karoo Class"4-6-2 Pacific type passenger locomotives that had been ordered by theCape Government Railways in 1911, designatedClass 5.^[5][6]
• April – The first eight of forty-sixClass 124-8-2 Mountain type goods locomotives.^[6]

• 30 November – TheSouth African Springboks beatIreland 38–0 inIreland.

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