1834 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1834 in South Africa.

Events

 * 15 January - John Herschel, an English mathematician and astronomer, arrives in Cape Town with his twenty-foot-long telescope
 * 21 December Xhosa armies attack the eastern regions of the Cape Colony starting the 6th Cape Frontier War that only ends in 1836
 * The emancipation of the estimated 39,000 slaves in the colony
 * The Bo-Kaap (Upper Cape) in the colony is established by Muslim ex-slaves
 * The colony's Legislative Council is formed
 * The Berlin Mission Society establishes a station at Bethulie
 * The Anglican St. John's Church is built in Bathurst
 * King William's Town is founded.

Births

 * 20 January - Petrus Jacobus Joubert, a South African Republic Triumvirate member, is born near Cango in the Oudtshoorn district of Cape Colony
 * 15 April - Thomas François Burgers, the 4th state president of the South African Republic, is born on Langefontein farm in the Camdeboo district of Graaff-Reinet, Cape Colony