1883 in South Africa

Events

• 16 April - Paul Kruger is elected president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek
• 9 May - Paul Kruger is sworn in as president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek
• 7 August - The "United States of Stellaland" is formed when the republics of Stellaland and Goshen unite
• 12 August - The last Quagga in world dies in captivity at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam making the species extinct.

Births

Deaths

• 9 August - Robert Moffat, Scottish Congregationalist missionary, dies in Leigh near Tunbridge Wells, England