Events

• The Eastern Province Rugby Union is founded.
• 13 March De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd.
  De Beers
  De Beers is a family of companies that dominate the diamond, diamond mining, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing sectors. De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea...
  
   is founded in Kimberley.
• 30 October - Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company
  British South Africa Company
  The British South Africa Company was established by Cecil Rhodes through the amalgamation of the Central Search Association and the Exploring Company Ltd., receiving a royal charter in 1889...
  
   swindles Lobengula
  Lobengula
  Lobengula Khumalo was the second and last king of the Ndebele people, usually pronounced Matabele in English. Both names, in the Sindebele language, mean "The men of the long shields", a reference to the Matabele warriors' use of the Zulu shield and spear.- Background :The Matabele were related to...
  
   out of Matabeleland
  Matabeleland
  Modern day Matabeleland is a region in Zimbabwe divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo and Matabeleland South. These provinces are in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers. The region is named after its inhabitants, the Ndebele people...
  
   in the Rudd Concession
  Rudd Concession
  The Rudd Concession was a written mining concession or agreement that Charles Rudd secured from Lobengula, King of Matabeleland on 13 October 1888. Rudd was a business associate of Cecil John Rhodes and he obtained the concession as his agent....
  
  , named after Charles Rudd
  Charles Rudd
  Charles Dunell Rudd was the main business associate of Cecil John Rhodes.Rudd studied at Harrow School and then entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1863, where he excelled in playing rackets...
  
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• The town of Amersfoort in what is now Mpumalanga Province is established around a Dutch Reformed Church
  Dutch Reformed Church
  The Dutch Reformed Church was a Reformed Christian denomination in the Netherlands. It existed from the 1570s to 2004, the year it merged with the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands to form the Protestant Church in the...
  
   built in 1876
  1876 in South Africa
  -Events:* Boers build a Dutch Reformed Church at what is now the town of Amersfoort in Mpumalanga Province* The first railway line in Natal is built* 15 January - Die Patriot, the first Afrikaans newspaper, is published in Paarl-Births:...
  
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Deaths

• 26 April - William Wellington Gqoba
  William Wellington Gqoba
  William Wellington Gqoba was a South African Xhosa poet, translator, and journalist. He was a major nineteenth-century Xhosa writer, whose relatively short life saw him working as a wagonmaker, a clerk, a teacher, a translator of Xhosa and English, and a pastor.Gqoba was born in Gaba, near Alice,...
  
  , author
  Author
  An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
  
  , dies at Lovedale
  Lovedale (South Africa)
  Lovedale was a mission station and educational institute in the VictoriaEast division of the Cape Province, South Africa...
  
   near Alice.
• 9 July - Johannes Henricus Brand, the 4th president of the Orange Free State
  Orange Free State
  The Orange Free State was an independent Boer republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province...
  
  , dies.