Events
- The first South African International Exhibition is held in Cape Town
- The Cape Government establishes the Council of Education. Dramatic increase in the number of educational facilities, such as mission schools, on the eastern Cape frontier
- The new Governor of the Cape, Bartle Frere arrives, with a mandate to impose confederation on the southern African states
- Native Locations or reservations for Tswana people are established in Griqualand West
- The railway systems in the Natal Colony is taken over by the local government
- 12 April - Theophilus Shepstone annexes the Transvaal Republic as a British colony, in preparation for confederation. Resistance to British rule begins
- 10 May - Paul Kruger leads a deputation to the UK to demand the freedom of the South African Republic
- Tribal dispute erupts between the Gcaleka and the Fingo peoples of the eastern Cape frontier. Cape and British involvement leads to the 9th Cape Frontier War which ends the following year
- Bartle Frere orders disarmament and eviction of Gcaleka people and white settlement on Gcaleka land
- Serious disagreements between the Cape Colony and the British Governor over management of the frontier war
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