1913 in South Africa

Events

South Africa's first flying school opens in Kimberley to train pilots for the South African Aviation Corps.

19 – The Natives Land Act is passed, limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories.

6 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

The City of Greater Cape Town is formed by the union of Central Cape Town, Green Point and Sea Point, Woodstock, Maitland, Mowbray, Rondebosch, Claremont and Kalk Bay.

9 December – Gerard Sekoto, artist, is born at Botshabelo mission, near Middelburg, Transvaal.

12 March – Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, the commandant of the Orange Free State and founder of Marquard.
30 April – Daniël Jacobus Erasmus, acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, dies in Bethal at the age of 83.

5 March – Cape – Vredenburg to Saldanha (Narrow gauge), 9 miles 65 chains (15.8 kilometres).^[1]
15 May – Free State – Arlington to Senekal, 27 miles 30 chains (44.1 kilometres).^[1]
15 July – Cape – Butterworth to Idutywa, 26 miles 74 chains (43.3 kilometres).^[1]
6 August – Cape – George to Oudtshoorn, 45 miles 30 chains (73.0 kilometres).^[1]
3 November – Cape – Graafwater to Kleipan, 22 miles 67 chains (36.8 kilometres).^[1]
3 November – Free State – Reitz to Marsala, 28 miles 69 chains (46.4 kilometres).^[1]
10 November – Transvaal – Nelspruit to Sabie, 55 miles 36 chains (89.2 kilometres).^[1]
1 December – Natal – Greytown to Ahrens, 19 miles 70 chains (32.0 kilometres).^[1]
5 December – Transvaal – Bandelierkop to Lilliput, 83 miles 33 chains (134.2 kilometres).^[1]
15 December – Natal – Tendeka to Piet Retief (Transvaal), 76 miles 35 chains (123.0 kilometres).^[1]

Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):
- The first of ten Class 4A 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotives.^[2]^:38–39
- The first of forty-five Class 14 4-8-2 Mountain type locomotives.^[2]^:56–57
The New Cape Central Railway places three Cape 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type locomotives in service.^[2]^:46–48^[3]^:78–80^[4]^:15–16

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 187, ref. no. 200954-13
1 2 3 Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. ISBN 0869772112.
↑ Holland, D.F. (1971). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways, Volume 1: 1859-1910 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-5382-0.
↑ Pattison, R.G. (1997). The Cape Seventh Class Locomotives (1st ed.). Kenilworth, Cape Town: The Railway History Group. ISBN 0958400946.

1913 in Africa

Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland

Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)

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