The following lists events that happened during 1906 in South Africa. Incumbents Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Walter Hely-Hutchinson. Governor of the Colony of Natal: Henry Edward McCallum. Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Leander Starr Jameson. Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony: William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne. Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Charles John Smythe (until 28 November), Frederick Robert Moor (starting 28 November). Events February 11 – Two British £1-per-head tax collectors are killed near Richmond, sparking the Bambatha Rebellion led by Chief Bambatha kaMancinza, leader of the clan of the Zulu people. May 2 – Lord Alfred Milner, British colonial secretary and the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, returns to Britain. 6 – British troops kill over 60 Zulu warriors during a punitive expedition near Durban. June The first issue of the Annals of the Natal Government Museum (currently African Invertebrates) is published by Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Unknown date Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa. Births 6 January – Walter Battiss, artist, is born in Somerset East (d. 1982) 5 March – Siegfried Mynhardt, actor, is born in Johannesburg. (d. 1996) 11 June – N.P. van Wyk Louw, poet, dramatist and essayist, is born in Sutherland, Cape Colony. (d. 1970) 30 October – Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, is born near Tsolo in the Cape Colony. 13 December – Laurens van der Post, author, farmer, war hero, political adviser, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist, is born in Philippolis. (d. 1996) Deaths Railways Railway lines opened Transvaal – Nancefield to Pimville, . 22 January – Cape Central – Riversdale to Voorbaai, . 6 February – Free State – Jagersfontein to Fauresmith, . 1 April – Cape Midland – Port Elizabeth to Humewood Road (Narrow gauge), . 6 April – Transvaal – Orkney to Fourteen Streams, . 16 May – Natal – Donnybrook to Creighton, . 1 June – Natal – Ennersdale to Loskop, . 21 June – Free State – Bethlehem to Kroonstad, . 21 June – Transvaal – Pienaarsrivier to Settlers (Regauged), . 1 August – Cape Western – Pampoenpoort to Carnarvon, . 29 August – Cape Eastern – Elliot to Maclear, . 1 December – Cape Midland – Humansdorp to Misgund (Narrow gauge), . 15 December – Cape Midland – Valley Junction to Walmer