1730s in South Africa

Events

1730

• The Dutch East India Company imports slaves from Mozambique and Zanzibar
• The first trekboers reach the George area, trek inland into Langkloof
• 8 March - Jan de la Fontaine becomes Governor of the Cape Colony
• 8 April - The first Jewish congregation consecrates their synagogue

  1732

• The Trek Boers, the first Dutch farmers, settled along the Olifants River

  1734

• Jan de la Fontaine, Governor of the Cape, claims Mossel Bay for the Dutch East India Company and the Great Brak River is proclaimed the eastern boundary of Cape

  1736

• 14 November Adriaan van Kervel is appointed Governor of the Cape
• Phalo becomes King of the Xhosa Nation

  1737

• 21 May - Nine ships are wrecked in a gale in Table Bay with a loss of 208 lives
• 9 July - George Schmidt, the first Protestant missionary in southern Africa, arrives at the Cape
• 20 September - Daniel van den Henghel is appointed acting Governor of the Cape
• 18 December - The first Moravian mission station in South Africa is established in Genadendal near present-day Caledon by George Schmidt, "The Apostle of the Hottentots"

  1739

• 1 March - Etienne Barbier's insurrection at Paarl
• 1 April Hendrik Swellengrebel becomes the first South African-born governor when he is appointed Governor of the Cape

  Deaths

• 1733 - Willem Adriaan van der Stel, Governor of the Cape, dies
• 1737 - Adriaan van Kervel, Governor of the Cape, dies