1732 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1732 in South Africa.

Incumbents

Governor of the Cape Colony - Jan de la Fontaine

Events

The VOC revises land tenure to control Trek Boers and enforce rent on the leningplaatsen. Cape Colony farmers are reimbursed for fixed improvements if land is returned after its tenure. The Maputo slave post is abandoned by the VOC due to a mutiny. The Trek Boers settle along the Olifants River. Hercules Mahieu, a Cape official, marries Arnoldina Hendrica Pothof from Breda. The Netherlands abolishes property confiscation for treason.Zululand Administration (hereafter ZA) 33: Copy of the opinion of Attorney-General H Bale on the crime of high treason, 1899-1900.

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