← 1891 1890 1889 1892 in South Africa → 1893 1894 1895
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1892 in South Africa.

Incumbents

• Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Henry Brougham Loch.
• Governor of the Colony of Natal: Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell.
• State President of the Orange Free State: Francis William Reitz.
• State President of the South African Republic: Paul Kruger.
• Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Cecil John Rhodes.

Events

February

• 8 – The Orange Free State, Transvaal and the Cape Colony officially adopt a uniform standard time of GMT+01:30.^[1]

August

• 20 – The Johannesburg Reform Committee is established by prominent Johannesburg citizens.

September

• 8 – The South African and International Exhibition opens
• 15 – The railway line from Cape Town via Bloemfontein, with connections to Port Elizabeth and East London, is completed to Germiston.^[2][3]

Births

• 3 January – J.R.R. Tolkien, writer, poet, philologist and professor. (d. 1973)

Deaths

Railways

Railway lines opened

• 8 February – Cape Midland – Rosmead Junction to Stormberg Junction to link with the Cape Eastern, 83 miles (133.6 kilometres).^[4]
• 7 May – Free State – Bloemfontein to Vaal River Bridge, 212 miles 79 chains (342.8 kilometres).^[3]
• 21 May – Cape Eastern – Albert Junction (Dreunberg Junction) to Bethulie Bridge, 39 miles (62.8 kilometres).^[4]

• 21 May – Free State – Bethulie Bridge to Springfontein, 28 miles 2 chains (45.1 kilometres).^[3]
• 20 June – Transvaal – Malelane to Nelspruit, 38 miles (61.2 kilometres).^[3]
• 12 July – Natal – Danskraal to Natal-Free State border, 35 miles 79 chains (57.9 kilometres).^[3]
• 12 July – Free State – Natal-Free State border to Harrismith, 23 miles 12 chains (37.3 kilometres).^[3]
• 15 September – Transvaal – Vaal River Bridge to Germiston, 40 miles (64.4 kilometres).^[3]

Locomotives

Cape

• The Cape Government Railways places the first six 7th Class 4-8-0 Mastodon type steam locomotives in service.^{[5]: 40–41, 61 [6][7]}

Transvaal

• The Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal Republic) places the first of twenty 40 Tonner tank locomotives in service.^{[5]: 113–114}