1834 in South Africa

Events

• 15 January - John Herschel, an English mathematician and astronomer, arrives in Cape Town with his twenty-foot-long telescope
• 21 December Xhosa armies attack the eastern regions of the Cape Colony starting the 6th Cape Frontier War that only ends in 1836
• The emancipation of the estimated 39,000 slaves in the colony
• The Bo-Kaap in the colony is established by Muslim ex-slaves
• The colony's Legislative Council is formed
• The Berlin Mission Society establishes a station at Bethulie
• The Anglican St. John's Church is built in Bathurst
• King William's Town is founded.

  Births

• 20 January - Petrus Jacobus Joubert, a South African Republic Triumvirate member, is born near Cango in the Oudtshoorn district of Cape Colony
• 15 April - Thomas François Burgers, the 4th state president of the South African Republic, is born on Langefontein farm in the Camdeboo district of Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony