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