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The following lists events that happened during 1859 in South Africa.
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Incumbents
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Sir George Grey.
Lieutenant-governor of the Colony of Natal: John Scott.
State President of the Orange Free State:
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff (until 5 September).
Esaias Reynier Snijman (acting from 6 September).
President of the Executive Council of the South African Republic: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius.
Events
September
6 – Esaias Reynier Snijman becomes the acting State President of the Orange Free State.
8 – The first railway locomotive in South Africa is brought ashore in Cape Town.
Births
11 January – John Tengo Jabavu, political activist and newspaper editor. (d. 1921)
1 May – Willem Johannes Leyds, attorney-general of the South African Republic. (d. 1940)