The Netherlands Colony of the Cape - founded in 1652 - was occupied by the British
in 1806 and formally ceded to them by the Treaty of Paris in 1814.
It was organized as a Crown Colony, which was granted selfgovernment in 1872. (1)
(1) Territories annexed to the Cape Colony in this period inclided :
- In the East :
- 1866 : Britis Kaffraria
- 1871 : Basutoland (until 1884)
- 1879 : Griqualand East and Fingoland
- 1884 -1886 : Galekaland, Bomvanaland and Tembuland
- 1894 : Pondoland
- in the North and the West :
- 1880 : Griqualand West
- 1884 : Walvis Bay (until 1922)
- 1895 : British Bechuanaland
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BRITISH ADMINISTRATORS
Governors - Gouverneurs
In 1882 Dutch also became an official language.
(From 1847 to 1901 also High Commissioners in and for South Africa)
1847 - 1852 MajGen. Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith 1787 - 1860
1852 - 1854 LtGen. George Cathcart 1794 - 1854
1854 Charles Henry Darling* 1809 - 1870
1854 - 1861 Sir George Grey 1812 - 1898
Acting for Grey
1859 - 1860 Robert Henry Wynyard 1802 - 1864
1861 - 1862 LtGen. Robert Henry Wynyard* (2x) 1802 - 1864
1862 - 1870 Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse 1811 - 1887
1870 LtCol. Charles Craufurd Hay* 1809 - 1873
1870 - 1877 Sir Henry Barkly 1815 - 1898
1877 - 1880 Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere 1815 - 1884
1880 MajGen. Henry Hugh Clifford* 1826 - 1883
1880 - 1881 Sir George Cumine Strahan* 1838 - 1889
1881 - 1889 Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson 1824 - 1897
Acting for Robinson
1881 LtGen. Sir Leicester Smyth 1829 - 1891
1881 - 1883 none
1883 - 1884 LtGen. Sir Leicester Smyth (2x)
1844 - 1886 none
1886 LtGen. Sir Henry D'Oyley
Torrens 1833 - 1889
1889 LtGen. Henry Augustus Smyth* 1825 - 1906
1889 - 1895 Sir Henry Brougham Loch 1827 - 1900
Acting for Loch
1891 - 1892 LtGen. Sir William Gordon
Cameron 1827 - 1913
1892 - 1894 none
1894 LtGen. Sir William Gordon
Cameron (2x)
1895 - 1897 Sir (to 1896) Hercules George Robert
Robinson, Baron (1896) Rosmead (2x)
1897 Sir William Howley Goodenough* 1833 - 1898
1897 - 1901 Sir Alfred Milner, lats governor to be
High Commissioner 1854 - 1925
Acting for Milner
1898 - 1899 LtGen. Sir William Francis
Butler 1838 - 1910
1901 - 1910 Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson 1849 - 1913
Acting for Hely)Hutchinson
1909 MajGen. Sir Henry Jenner
Scobell 1859 - 1912
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MINISTERS
Premiers
1872 - 1878 John Charles Molteno, also Colonial
Secretary 1814 - 1886
1878 - 1881 John Gordon Sprigg, also Colonial
Secretary 1830 - 1913
1881 - 1884 Thomas Charles Scanlen, also Attorney
General until 188., then Colonial
Secretary 1834 - 1912
1884 - 1886 Thomas Upington, also Attorney General 1844 - 1898
1886 - 1890 Sir John Gordon Sprigg (2x), also Treasurer
1890 - 1896 Cecil John Rhodes, also Commissioner
for Crown Lands and Public Works until 189. 1853 - 1902
1896 - 1898 Sir John Gordon Sprigg (3x), also Treasurer
1898 - 1900 William Philip Schreiner, also Colonial
Secretary 1857 - 1919
1900 - 1904 Sir John Gordon Sprigg (4x), also Treasurer
1904 - 1908 Leander Starr Jameson 1853 - 1917
1908 - 1910 John Xavier Merriman, also Treasurer 1841 - 1926
Colonial Secretaries - Koloniale Secretarissen
1872 - 1878 John Charles Molteno s.a.
1878 - 1881 John Gordon Sprigg s.a.
1881 - 188. John Charles Molteno (2x)
188. - 1884 Thomas Charles Scanlen s.a.
1884 - 188. Jonathan Ayliff
188. - 188. John Tudhope
188. - 1890 H. W. Pearson
1890 - 1893 Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer 1850 - 1913
1893 - 1896 Pieter Hendrik Faure
1896 - 1898 Thomas N. G. te Water 1857 - 1926
1898 Arthur Francis Thomas William Smartt 1858 - 1929
1898 - 1900 William Philip Schreiner s.a.
1900 - 1902 Thomas Lynedoch Graham 1860 - 1942
1902 Arthur Douglas
1902 - 1904 Pieter Hendrik Faure (2x)
1904 - 1907 Charles Preston Crewe 1853 - 1917
1907 - 1908 Sir Pieter Frederik Faure (3x)
1908 - 1910 Nikolaas Frederik de Waal 1853 - 1932
Secretaries for Native Affairs - Secretarissen voor Naturellen Zaken
1872 - 1878 Charles Brwonlee 1821 - 1890
1878 - 1881 William Ayliff 1825 - 1905
1881 - 1884 Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer s.a.
1884 - 1890 J. A. de Wet
1890 - 1893 Pieter Hendrik Faure s.a.
1893 - 1896 John Frost, also Secretary for Agriculture
Attorneys General - Procureurs Generaal
1872 - 1874 John Henry de Villiers 1842 - 1914
1874 - 1877 Simeon Jacons* 1832 - 1883
1877 - 1878 Andries Stockenström 1844 - 1880
1878 - 18.. Thomas Upington s.a.
18.. - 1881 J. W. Leonard 18.. - 1909
1881 - 188. Thomas Charles Scanlen s.a.
188. - 1884 J. W. Leonard (2x)
1884 - 1890 Thomas Upington (2x)
1890 - 1893 James Rose Innes 1855 - 1942
1893 - 1894 William Philip Schreiner s.a.
1894 Henricus Hubertus Juta* 1857 - 1930
1894 - 1896 William Philip Schreiner (2x)
1896 - 1898 Thomas Upington (3x)
1898 Thomas Lynedoch Graham s.a.
1898 - 1900 Richard Solomon
1900 - 1902 James Rose Innes (2x)
1902 - 1904 Thomas Lynedoch Graham (2x)
1904 - 1908 Victor Sampson
1908 - 1910 Henry Burton 1866 - 1935
Treasurers - Schatbewaarders
1872 - 1878 Henry White
1878 - 18.. J. Miller
18.. - 1881 H. W. Pearson s.a.
1881 - 1884 Charles William Hutton
1884 Cecil John Rhodes s.a.
1884 - 1890 John Gordon Sprigg s.a.
1890 - 1893 John Xavier Merriman s.a.
1893 - 1898 Sir John Gordon Sprigg (2x)
1898 - 1900 John Xavier Merriman (2x)
1900 - 1904 Sir John Gordon Sprigg (3x)
1904 - 1908 Edgar H. Walton
1908 - 1910 John Xavier Merriman (3x)
Commissioners for Public WorksCommissioners for Crown Lands and Public Works - Kommissarissen voor Gronden en
Openbare Werken
1872 - 1875 Charles Abercrombie Smith 1834 - 1919
1875 - 1878 John Xavier Merriman s.a.
1878 - 1881 John Laing
1881 - 1884 John Xavier Merriman (2x)
1884 - 1890 Frederik Xavier Schermbrücker
1890 - 189. Cecil John Rhodes s.a.
189. - 1893 James Sivewright 1848 - 1916
Commissioners for Public Works - Kommissarissen voor Openbare Werken
1893 - 1896 John Laing (2x)
1896 - 1898 James Sivewright (2x)
1898 - 1900 Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer s.a.
1900 - 1902 Arthur Francis Thomas William Smartt s.a.
1902 - 1904 Arthur Douglas s.a.
1907 - 1908 Arthur Francis Thomas William Smartt (2x)
1908 - 1910 Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer (2x)
Secretaries for Agriculture - Secretarissen voor Landbouw
1893 - 1896 John Frost, also Secretary for Native
Affairs s.a.
1896 - 1898 Pieter Hendrik Faure s.a.
1898 - 1900 Albertus Johannes Herholdt
1900 - 1902 Pieter Hendrik Faure (2x)
1902 - 1904 John Frost (2x)
1904 - 1907 A. J. Fuller
1907 - 1908 Charles Preston Crewe s.a.
1908 - 1910 François Stephanus Malan 1871 - 1941
Ministers without Potfolio - Ministers zonder Portefeuille
18.. - 1881 J. Miller s.a.
1881 Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr "Onze Jan" 1845 - 1909
1881 - 1898 none
1898 - 1900 Thomas N. G. te Water s.a.
1900 - 1902 John Frost s.a.
1902 - 1904 none
1904 - 1907 Sir L. L. Mitchell
1907 - 1908 A. J. Fuller s.a.
1908 - 1910 -Henry Latham Currey 1863 - 1945
-David Pieter de Villiers Graaf 1859 - 1931
SOUTH AFRICAN CAPE PROVINCE
In 1910 the Cape became a province of the Union of South Africa.
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CHIEF EXECUTIVES
Administrators - Administrateurs
1910 - 1925 Nicolaas Frederik de Waal 1853 - 1932
1926 - 1929 Adriaan Paulus Johannes Fourie 1882 - 1941
1929 - 1939 Johannes Hendrik Conradie 1872 - 1940
1939 - 1942 François Allen Joubert 1889 - 1942
1942 - 1945 Gideon Brand van Zyl 1873 - 1956
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