1888 in South Africa
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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
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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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