1882 in South Africa

Events

May

• 9 May - Paul Kruger becomes President of South African Republic
• 28 May - Two ships, the Agnes (94 tonne) and the Christina (196 tonne), run ashore at Plettenberg Bay

July

• 26 July - The Stellaland republic is declared

September

• 2 September - Kimberley becomes the first town in the southern hemisphere to install electric street lighting.

Unknown date

• The Dutch language is once again admitted as an official language alongside English in the Cape Colony
• The Goshen republic is declared

Births

• 24 February - Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman (aka Bosman de Ravelli), concert pianist and composer, is born in Piketberg