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EVENTS

May

1 May - The seat of the South African Republic government is officially transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretoria

4 May - The Orange Free State signs a peace treaty with Moshoeshoe I at Wittebergen, near Winburg , ending the first Basuto War

June

26 June - The Natal Railway Company opens the first Railway line in South Africa , the 3,2km railway line ran along the Bluff side of the harbour to Durban

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The first indenture of India n workers arrive in Natal to work in the Sugar industry

Construction is started of the first of the Table Bay docks, Alfred Dock, in Cape Town

The first Telegraph service in South Africa starts operating between Cape Town and Simonstown

The penny post in Cape Town is started

Boer republics north of Vaal River unite as South African Republic

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