The following lists events that happened during the 1740s in South Africa. Events 1741 Henri Guillaume Bossau, founder of the Boshoff family in South Africa and great-grandfather of Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, 2nd state president of the Orange Free State, arrives in Cape Town from Bayonne, France as a locksmith in the service of the Dutch East India Company. 1742 25 January — Adriaan Valckenier, Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company, is arrested in Cape Town on sundry charges. 1743 The Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company, Von Imhoff visits Cape Town. Simon's Bay is chosen to be used as a harbour between mid-May and mid-August because of the damage caused by the winter storms in Table Bay. A Dutch Reformed Church is established in Roodezand, today known as Tulbagh. 1744 5 March — Georg Schmidt, the first Protestant missionary in South Africa, who worked with the Khoikhoi, returns to Europe. 1745 The Dutch East India Company established a magistracy at Swellendam. The Dutch Reformed Church establish a congregation in the Swartland, Malmesbury. 1747 22 February — A day of prayer and fasting is held for the elimination of the locust plague from Table Valley. 26 October — Swellendam is founded. Births 17 December 1747 — Petrus Johannes Truter, explorer and official in the East India Company, is born in Cape Town 28 August 1748 — Tjaart van der Walt, farmer and field commandant in the Third Cape Frontier War is born in the Roggeveld district of Sutherland, Cape Colony. Deaths 1743 — Jan de la Fontaine, Governor of the Cape Colony. References History of South Africa