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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