1931 in South Africa

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Decades:
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
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The following lists events that happened during 1931 in South Africa.

Incumbents

Events

January
December

Births

Deaths

  • 9 January – Second Boer War General Johannes Gerhardus Celliers at age 70.
  • 24 January – Sir Percy FitzPatrick, author, politician and mining financier. (b. 1862)
  • 24 October – Sir Murray Bisset, South African cricketer and Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1876)

Railways

Class NG G14 Garratt
Class NG15 Kalahari

Railway lines opened

  • 3 June – Cape – Molteno to Jamestown, 41 miles 72 chains (67.4 kilometres).[1]
  • 1 July – Natal – Chailey to Mount Alida, 25 miles 33 chains (40.9 kilometres).[1]
  • 1 July – Natal – Greyville Cabin to Berea Road, 1 mile 36 chains (2.3 kilometres).[1]

Locomotives

Two new narrow gauge steam locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):

Sports

Rugby

References

  1. 1 2 3 Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 190, ref. no. 200954-13
  2. 1 2 Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 107–108. ISBN 0869772112.
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