1908 in South Africa

Events

• Bosman de Ravelli composes the first afrikaans art song
• 30 January - Mahatma Gandhi is released from prison by Jan Smuts after been tried and sentenced to 2 months in jail earlier in the month
• 4 March - The Pretoria branch of the Transvaal University College, the precursor to the University of Pretoria, is established
• 7 October - Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Volksrust, along with fifteen other Indians, for entering Transvaal without registration certificates and sentenced to two months imprisonment with hard labor

Births

• 5 March - Arthur Wegelin, composer, is born
• 23 April - Abram Louis Fischer, lawyer and champion against apartheid, is born in the Orange Free State
• 2 July - Andries Johannes Bester de Klerk, writer and secretary of the Cape Province, is born in Williston, Cape Colony