1888 in South Africa
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See also: 1887 in South Africa, other events of 1888, 1889 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
[edit] Events
- The Eastern Province Rugby Union is founded
- 13 March De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded in Kimberley
- 30 October - Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company swindles Lobengula out of Matabeleland in the Rudd Concession
- The town of Amersfoort in what is now Mpumalanga Province is established around a Dutch Reformed Church built in 1876
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- 26 April - William Wellington Gqoba, author, dies at Lovedale near Alice
- 9 July - Johannes Hendrikus Brand, the 4th President of the Orange Free State, dies
