An official expedition of Truter, Somerville, Barrow and Daniell with missionaries Jan Matthys Kok and William Edwards reaches Dithakong
William Anderson establishes a mission at Aakaap and Klaarwater (later calle Griquatown)
A Khoisan spelling book printed by the London Missionary Society
20 April - Francis Dundas is appointed Governor of the Cape
Graaff Reinet, a town of South Africa, 185 miles by rail NW by N of Port Elizabeth. ... Cape Frontier Wars also called Kaffir wars or Kafir wars (1779-1879) was 100 years of intermittent warfare and nine different wars between the Cape colonists and the Xhosa agricultural and pastoral peoples of the Eastern Cape, in South Africa. ... This article is about the Khoisan ethnic group. ... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ...
The South African Party was an amalgamation of Die Afrikanerbond (Suid-Afrikaanse Party) in the Cape, Het Volk in the Transvaal, the Orangia-unie in the Orange Free State, and the Volksvereniging with a section of the English in Natal.
At the Premier Mine in Pretoria, SouthAfrica, a 3,106-carat diamond is discovered during a routine inspection by the mine's superintendent.
Bantu herdsmen and agriculturalists migrated to south of the Limpopo River.
Area and Boundaries.The boundary separating the German protectorate from the Portuguese possessions of Angola is the lower Kunene, from its mouth in 17 18' S., 11 40' E. to the limit of navigability from the sea, thence in a direct lime, corresponding roughly to the lat.
On the south this narrow strip of land (known as the Caprivi enclave) is separated from southern Rhodesia by the Kwando or Chobe river.
South of Omboroko, occupying the centre of the country, the range attains its highest average altitude.
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