1730s in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during the 1730s in South Africa.

1730

 * The Dutch East India Company imports slaves from Mozambique and Zanzibar
 * The first trekboers reach the George area, trek inland into Langkloof
 * 8 March - Jan de la Fontaine becomes Governor of the Cape Colony
 * 8 April - The first Jewish congregation consecrates their synagogue

1732

 * The Trek Boers, the first Dutch farmers, settled along the Olifants River

1733

 * Matthias Lotter, master Gold and Silver Smith arrives at the Cape.

1734

 * Jan de la Fontaine, Governor of the Cape, claims Mossel Bay for the Dutch East India Company and the Great Brak River is proclaimed the eastern boundary of Cape

1736

 * 14 November Adriaan van Kervel is appointed Governor of the Cape
 * Phalo becomes King of the Xhosa Nation

1737

 * 21 May - Nine ships are wrecked in a gale in Table Bay with a loss of 208 lives
 * 9 July - George Schmidt, the first Protestant missionary (Moravian Brethren) in southern Africa, arrives at the Cape
 * 20 September - Daniël van den Henghel is appointed acting Governor of the Cape
 * 18 December - The first Moravian mission station in South Africa is established in Genadendal near present-day Caledon by George Schmidt, "The Apostle of the Hottentots"

1739

 * 1 March - Etienne Barbier's insurrection at Paarl
 * 1 April Hendrik Swellengrebel becomes the first South African-born governor when he is appointed Governor of the Cape

Deaths

 * 1733 - Willem Adriaan van der Stel, Governor of the Cape, dies
 * 1737 - Adriaan van Kervel, Governor of the Cape, dies