1833 in South Africa
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Events
- David Hume, explorer and big-game hunter, becomes the first European to enter the country of the Bamangwato (Botswana).
- All slaves were emancipated in the British Empire.[1]
- Basotho kingdom under King Moshoeshoe repels attacks from mounted "Bergenaars" using horses and firearms, maintaining sovereignty. [2]
- Moshoeshoe invites Paris Evangelical Missionary Society missionaries to help modernize the state, and they establish villages along the frontier to reinforce authority.
- British Parliament passes the Abolition Act, ending slavery but introducing "apprenticeship" to prevent economic collapse.
