1914 in South Africa

1914 in South Africa

"See also:"
1913 in South Africa,
other events of 1914,
1915 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

* South Africa declares war on Germany
* The "Clan Stuart", a steamship is blown ashore between Glencairn and Simonstown in the Cape Province
* Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton is appointed the 2nd Governor-General of the Union of South Africa
* The Kimberley mine or "Big Hole" is closed
* A new Cape Point Lighthouse at Cape Point is built
* 8 January - A railway strike is declared in the Transvaal and Orange Free State
* 23 April - The Afrikaans language receives official recognition when Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven addresses the English caucus of the Cape Provincial Council
* 1 July - The National Party is formed in Bloemfontein
* 19 December - Mahatma Gandhi departs from Durban for Bombay

Births

* Alexander Coultate Rabagliati, World War II fighter pilot,is born in Scotland to Italian parents
* 3 July - Marmaduke Thomas St. John Pattle, World War II fighter pilot is born in Butterworth, Eastern Cape

Deaths

* 15 September - General Koos de la Rey, a former commander in the Boer War, was shot dead after he failed to stop at a police roadblock


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