1908 in South Africa
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See also: 1907 in South Africa, other events of 1908, 1909 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
[edit] 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 eariler in the month
- 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
[edit] 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
