The following lists events that happened during 1908 in South Africa.
Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Walter Hely-Hutchinson.
Governor of the Colony of Natal: Matthew Nathan.
Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Leander Starr Jameson.
Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Frederick Robert Moor.
Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony: Hamilton John Goold-Adams.
Prime Minister of the Transvaal Colony: Louis Botha.
January30 – Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison by Jan Smuts after having been tried and sentenced to 2 months in prison earlier in the month.March4 – The Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College, precursor to the University of Pretoria, is established.October7 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Volksrust, along with fifteen other Indians, for entering Transvaal without registration certificates and is sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labor.Unknown dateBosman de Ravelli composes the first Afrikaans art song5 March – Arthur Wegelin, composer.23 April – Bram Fischer, lawyer and champion against apartheid, is born in the Orange Free State. (d. 1975)2 July – Andries Johannes Bester de Klerk, writer and secretary of the Cape Province, is born in Williston, Cape Colony4 January – Cape Eastern – West Bank, Buffalo Harbour to Chiselhurst, 4 miles 35 chains (7.1 kilometres).6 February – Transvaal – Machadodorp to Breyten, 55 miles 3 chains (88.6 kilometres).8 April – Free State – Hamilton to Beaconsfield (Cape), 99 miles 52 chains (160.4 kilometres).28 May – Cape Western – Milnerton to Ascot, 2 miles (3.2 kilometres).3 June – Natal – Esperanza to Donnybrook (Narrow gauge), 94 miles (151.3 kilometres).The Cape Government Railways places two 4-6-2 Pacific type narrow gauge tank steam locomotives in passenger service on the Walmer branch in Port Elizabeth.
