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 References See Years in South Africa for list of References South Africa Years in South Africa