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The following lists events that happened during 1844 in South Africa.

Events

  • Voortrekkers from Natal cross back over the Drakensberg Mountains and settle at Potchefstroom.
  • The settlement of Victoria West is established
  • The Voortrekker leader Hendrik Potgieter settles at Delagoa Bay, Mozambique
  • Sir Peregrine Maitland becomes Governor of the Cape Colony.
  • Fighting erupts between Boers and the Griqua as Boers reject the authority of Adam Kok III.

Births

  • 5 October - Francis William Reitz, South African lawyer, politician, and statesman, president of the Orange Free State born in Swellendam, Cape Colony.

References

See Years in South Africa for list of References