1897 in South Africa

1897 in South Africa

"See also:"
1896 in South Africa,
other events of 1897,
1898 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

* 21 April - Sir Alfred Milner becomes High Commissioner of South Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony
* 5 May - Port Elizabeth is flooded
* Bergville Mountain Village is established in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains in Natal

Births

* 3 July - Ludwig Wybren Hiemstra, Afrikaans linguist and editor of the Bilingual Dictionary, is born in Lydenburg
* 26 October - James Leonard Brierley Smith, ichthyologist, is born in Graaff Reinet

Deaths


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