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The following lists events that happened during 1848 in South Africa.

Events

Source:

  • Approximately 163 German settlers, known as the Bergthiel Settlers, arrive in Natal.
  • Voortrekkers settle across the Vaal River.
  • At the Battle of Boomplaats, Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius leads a commando against British rule but is defeated with Griqua assistance.
  • The Reverend Isaac Hughes founds a mission station on the farm Backhouse, near the confluence of the Orange and Vaal rivers, which later develops into the town Douglas.
  • Cape Governor Sir Harry Smith annexes Transorangia, land north of the Orange River, creating the Orange River Sovereignty.
  • Sir Harry Smith orders Major Henry Warden to set boundaries between black and white communities north of the Caledon River, favoring the white settlers.
  • Sir Harry Smith proposes vagrancy laws to force settlers into labor, but local resistance forces him to abandon the plan.

Deaths

  • 4 June - Christina Pretorius, wife of Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius, dies near present-day Bela Bela
  • 23 November - Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, early explorer of Southern Africa, writer, and English Statesman, dies in London

References

See Years in South Africa for list of References