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The following lists events that happened during 1916 in South Africa.
Contents
Incumbents
Monarch: King George V.
Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: The Viscount Buxton.
Prime Minister: Louis Botha.
Chief Justice: James Rose Innes
Events
February
12 – In the Battle of Salaita Hill, South African and other British Empire troops fail to take a German East African defensive position.
July
14-16 – During the Battle of Delville Wood, 766 men from the South African Brigade are killed in South Africa's biggest loss in the First World War.
September
4 – Dar es Salaam surrenders to British Empire forces.
Births
12 January – P.W. Botha, politician, Prime Minister and State President. (d. 2006)
15 January – Rachel Alida de Toit, actor who performed under the name Lydia Lindeque. (d. 1997)
28 March – Abraham Manie Adelstein, South African-born Chief Medical Statistician of the United Kingdom. (d. 1992)
1 July – Thomas Hamilton-Brown, boxer. (d. 1981)
Deaths
5 June – The Earl Kitchener, British military commander during the Second Boer War. (b. 1850)
28 November – Martinus Theunis Steyn, last State President of the Orange Free State. (b. 1857)