1876 in South Africa

Events

• Boers build a Dutch Reformed Church at what is now the town of Amersfoort in Mpumalanga Province
• The first railway line in Natal is built
• 15 January - Die Patriot, the first Afrikaans newspaper, is published in Paarl

Births

• 9 October - Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator, and writer, is born near Boshof, Orange Free State
• 21 October – Sir Fraser Russell, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (died 1952)