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See also: 1887 in South Africa, other events of 1888, 1889 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.

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[edit] Events

• The Eastern Province Rugby Union is founded.
• 13 March De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded in Kimberley.
• 30 October - Cecil Rhodes and the British South Africa Company swindles Lobengula out of Matabeleland in the Rudd Concession, named after Charles Rudd.
• The town of Amersfoort in what is now Mpumalanga Province is established around a Dutch Reformed Church built in 1876.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• 26 April - William Wellington Gqoba, author, dies at Lovedale near Alice.
• 9 July - Johannes Henricus Brand, the 4th president of the Orange Free State, dies.