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See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1925 in South Africa.

Incumbents

• Monarch: King George V.
• Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Earl of Athlone.
• Prime Minister: J.B.M. Hertzog.
• Chief Justice: James Rose Innes.

Events

May

• 1 – The Prince of Wales arrives in Cape Town on a visit to South Africa.

July

• 23 – D.F. Malan, Minister of the Interior, introduces the Areas Reservation and Immigration and Registration Bill, also known as the Asiatic Bill.

Augustus

• 1 – The New Cape Central Railway and its 204 miles 69 chains (329.7 kilometres) long line between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways (SAR).

Unknown date

• Afrikaans officially replaces Dutch as the second official language after English.
• The manor house of Groot Constantia is gutted by a fire.
• The University of Pretoria begins the tradition of Jool in South Africa.
• South Africa returns to the gold standard.

Births

• 14 April – Colin Eglin, founding member and leader of the Progressive Federal Party. (d. 2013)
• 4 May – Ruth First, journalist, academic and activist. (d. 1982)
• 6 June – Andrew Mlangeni, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2020)
• 19 June – Alfred Nzo, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2000)
• 28 September – Cromwell Everson, composer. (d. 1991)
• 5 October – Herbert Kretzmer, journalist and lyricist (d. 2020)
• 14 October – Phillip Tobias, palaeoanthropologist. (d. 2012)

Deaths

• 30 August – Cathcart William Methven, civil engineer and painter. (b. 1849)

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 21 January – Transvaal – Rustenburg to Boshoek, 15 miles 17 chains (24.5 kilometres).
• 26 May – Transvaal – Magaliesburg to Schoemansville, 33 miles 20 chains (53.5 kilometres).
• 26 June – Natal – Eshowe to Extension, 74 chains (1.5 kilometres).
• 1 September – Transvaal – Ermelo to Lothair, 30 miles 51 chains (49.3 kilometres).
• 25 September – Transvaal – Elandshoek to Solarvale (Narrow gauge), 9 miles 40 chains (15.3 kilometres).
• 1 October – Transvaal – Nylstroom to Vaalwater, 45 miles 62 chains (73.7 kilometres).
• 14 October – Free State – Senekal to Marquard, 29 miles 78 chains (48.2 kilometres).
• 19 October – Cape – Kareevlakte to Ladismith, 46 miles 38 chains (74.8 kilometres).
• 26 November – Free State – Frankfort to Villiers, 19 miles 40 chains (31.4 kilometres).
• 1 December – Cape – Fort Beaufort to Katberg (Narrow gauge), 24 miles 36 chains (39.3 kilometres).

Locomotives

Seven new Cape gauge locomotive types, six steam and one electric, enter service on the SAR. The electric locomotive is the first non-steam mainline locomotive type to enter service in South Africa in quantity.

• A single experimental Class FC Modified Fairlie articulated steam locomotive.
• The first four Class GD branchline 2-6-2+2-6-2 Garratt articulated locomotives.
• The first six of eighteen Class GE 2-8-2+2-8-2 Garratt locomotives.
• A single Class GG 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt on fast mainline passenger service.
• Two American-built Class 15C 4-8-2 Mountain type steam locomotives.
• The first two of seven Class 16D 4-6-2 Pacific type passenger locomotives.
• The first of altogether 172 Class 1E electric locomotives, spread over seven orders, the first mainline electric locomotive to be introduced in South Africa.

References

1. Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
2. Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 6, p. 68.
3. ^ Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 189, ref. no. 200954-13
4. Retrieved 1 April 2010
5. Stanley Uys (9 December 2013). "Colin Eglin obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
6. ^ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 61–62, 66, 90–93, 97, 125. ISBN 0869772112.
7. ^ Holland, D. F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways. Vol. 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, England: David & Charles. pp. 43–45, 47–49. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
8. Espitalier, T.J.; Day, W.A.J. (1945). The Locomotive in South Africa - A Brief History of Railway Development. Chapter VII - South African Railways (Continued). South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, December 1945. pp. 967-968.
9. ^ Hamilton, Gavin N., The Garratt Locomotive - Garratt Locomotives produced by Beyer, Peacock, retrieved 10 November 2012
10. South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610 mm and 1065 mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended
11. Espitalier, T.J.; Day, W.A.J. (1946). The Locomotive in South Africa - A Brief History of Railway Development. Chapter VII - South African Railways (Continued). South African Railways and Harbours Magazine, March 1946. pp. 205-208.

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