Events
- Boers build a Dutch Reformed Church at what is now the town of Amersfoort in Mpumalanga Province
- 15 January - Die Patriot, the first Afrikaans newspaper, is published in Paarl
- Prime Minister Molteno travels to London to discuss Britain's proposed confederation model for southern Africa
- The "Molteno Unification Plan" is put forward as a more realistic model for eventual political consolidation in southern Africa
- Britain admits wrongful action in its annexation of Griqualand West
- President Johannes Brand of the Orange Free State rejects any discussion of Carnarvon's proposed confederation system for southern Africa
- July - Construction begins on the Cape Town Central Station as hub to the Cape Government Railways
- The first railway line in Natal is built
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“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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