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EVENTS

South Africa's first school of mines is opened in Kimberley (later to form the core of the University Of The Witwatersrand in Johannesburg )

6 January - Cecil Rhodes is forced to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony for his involvement in the Jameson Raid

16 February - a train carrying 56 tons of Dynamite explodes at Braamfontein , Johannesburg killing more than 78 people

6 August - Cape Town 's first electric tram service begins operation along Adderley Street to Mowbray Hill

BIRTHS

12 January - Matthys Stefanus Benjamin Kritzinger , an Afrikaans Literator and Lexiographer , is born in the district of Carolina , Eastern Transvaal

1 February - Stephanus Le Roux Marais , Organist , Teacher and Composer of Afrikaans songs, is born in the district of Bloemfontein

--- Ivan Mitford-Barberton , Art Teacher at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town and Sculptor of several monuments in South Africa, is born in Somerset East

April - Clements Kadalie , Trade Unionist , is born at Chifira, Nkhata Bay District , Nyasaland (now called Malawi)

3 May - Petrus Johannes Lemmer , composer of Afrikaans songs, is born in Hartbeesfontein , Transvaal

DEATHS