1927 in South Africa

Events

20 – The restored manor house of Groot Constantia is reopened after a fire devastated it in 1925.

13 January – Sydney Brenner, biologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate, is born in Germiston, Johannesburg.
May – Philemon (Duma) Pearce Dumasile Nokwe, the first black advocate of the Supreme Court of Transvaal and politician.
10 June – Mizream Maseko, artist and Zion Christian Church deacon.
22 October – Helenard Joe Hendrickse (Allan Hendrickse) is born in Uitenhage, Cape Province.

7 January – Cape – Sunland to Kirkwood, 14 miles 54 chains (23.6 kilometres).^[1]
10 February – Transvaal – Solarvale to Mount Carmel, 2 miles 25 chains (3.7 kilometres).^[1]
27 April – Cape – Landplaas to Bitterfontein, 31 miles 63 chains (51.2 kilometres).^[1]
1 July – Transvaal – Makwassie to Vermaas, 59 miles 29 chains (95.5 kilometres).^[1]
4 July – Natal – Candover to Golela, Transvaal, 12 miles 27 chains (19.9 kilometres).^[1]
14 September – Cape – Imvani to Qamata, 26 miles 79 chains (43.4 kilometres).^[1]

Seven new steam locomotive types, five Cape gauge and two narrow gauge, enter service on the South African Railways (SAR):

Ten Class HF 2-8-2+2-8-2 Double Mikado type Modified Fairlie articulated steam locomotives.^[2]^:98^[3]^:52–53
Thirteen Class GCA 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt articulated branchline locomotives.^[2]^:90^[3]^:52–54
Thirty-seven Class GF 4-6-2+2-6-4 Double Pacific type Garratt locomotives.^[2]^:92^[3]^:54–56^[4]
Ten Class U 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Union Garratt articulated locomotives.^[2]^:96–97^[3]^:56
In December, the first of two Class 18 2-10-2 Santa Fe type locomotives.^[3]^:51–52
Two Class NG G12 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type narrow gauge Garratt articulated locomotives. They are the smallest Garratt locomotives to see service in South Africa.^[2]^{:106–107, 110}
The first three Class NG G13 2-6-2+2-6-2 Double Prairie type Garratt locomotives, on the Langkloof and Alfred County Railway narrow gauge lines.^[2]^{:10–11, 107}^[5]^:124

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 189, ref. no. 200954-13
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. ISBN 0869772112.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Holland, D.F. (1972). Steam Locomotives of the South African Railways, Volume 2: 1910-1955 (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, Devon: David & Charles. ISBN 978-0-7153-5427-8.
↑ Hamilton, Gavin N., The Garratt Locomotive - Garratt Locomotives from Other Builders, retrieved 10 November 2012
↑ Durrant, A E (1989). Twilight of South African Steam (1st ed.). Newton Abbott, London: David & Charles. ISBN 0715386387.

1927 in Africa

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