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| 1884 |
| | | Dinizulu, son of Cetshwayo, employs Boer mercenaries led by Louis Botha to drive his father's enemy, Zibhebhu, from the Zulu kingdom | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Botha and his Boer followers are rewarded by Dinizulu with a large tract of land, in which they establish their own Boer republic | |
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| 1887 |
| | | To put an end to the Boer republic in Zululand, the British annexe the Zulu kingdom | |
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| 1889 |
| | | Cecil Rhodes forms the British South Africa Company to push British commerce and imperial control further north | |
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| 1893 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi, travelling with a first-class ticket, is forcibly ejected from the carriage at Pietermaritzburg because of his colour | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Leander Jameson leads a disastrous raid into the Transvaal, in an attempt to topple Paul Kruger's government | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Cecil Rhodes' involvement with the Jameson raid forces his resignation as the Cape Colony prime minister | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Zululand, annexed by Britain in 1887, is now merged with the colony of Natal | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Paul Kruger, prime minister of the Transvaal, forms an alliance with the other Boer republic, the Orange Free State | |
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| 1897 |
| | | The UK colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, appoints enthusiastic imperialist Alfred Milner as high commissioner in South Africa | |
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