1861 in South Africa
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See also: 1860 in South Africa, ARRIVAL OF TRURO. The steamship SS. TRURO and others brought the first Indians from colonial India to work in the sugar plantations of Natal, South Africa. The year 1860 marks the latest, but not the first, Indian arrivals in South Africa. The Dutch, who were the earliest colonial power in South Africa, had brought Malays and Indians to the Cape Colony in the 1650s and 1660s. But South Africans generally mark 1860 as the beginning of the arrival of Indians to Natal, where Gandhi would arrive in 1893, to perform legal work for a "free" Indian businessman. other events of 1861, 1862 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
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- Sefako Mapogo Makgatho, the 2nd African National Congress' president, is born in GaMphahlele near Polokwane
- 10 November - Robert T. A. Innes, astronomer and secretary-accountant at the Cape observatory, is born at Edinburgh, Scotland
