1888 in South Africa

1888 in South Africa

"See also:"
1887 in South Africa,
other events of 1888,
1889 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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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, named after Charles Rudd.
* The town of Amersfoort in what is now Mpumalanga Province is established around a Dutch Reformed Church built in 1876.

Births

Deaths

* 26 April - William Wellington Gqoba, author, dies at Lovedale near Alice.
* 9 July - Johannes Henricus Brand, the 4th president of the Orange Free State, dies.


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