1913 in South Africa

Events

• The Natives Land Act is passed limiting land ownership for blacks to black territories
• The City of Greater Cape Town is formed by the union of Central Cape Town, Green Point and Sea Point, Woodstock, Maitland, Mowbray, Rondebosch, Claremont and Kalk Bay
• South Africa's first flying school opens in Kimberley to train the pilots of the South African Aviation Corps, later the South African Air Force
• 11 January - The Springboks beat the les Tricolores 38-5 in Bordeaux, France

Births

• 9 December - Gerard Sekoto, artist, is born at Botshabelo mission, near Middleberg, Mpumalanga

Deaths

• 12 March - Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, the commandant of the Orange Free State and founder of Marquard, dies
• 30 April - Daniël Jacobus Erasmus, acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, dies in Bethal at the age of 83