1721 in South Africa

March 2025 The following lists events that happened during 1721 in South Africa. 1721 August 2026 Incumbents Governor of the Cape Colony - Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes2005-03-24 Intro (African) to the Resolutions of Cape of Good Hope / VOC-bevelvoerders aan die Kaap die Goeie Hoop http://www.tanap.net/content/activities/documents/resolutions_Cape_of_Good_Hope/introduction_afrikaans/27.htm 2025-03-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20050324010058/http://www.tanap.net/content/activities/documents/resolutions_Cape_of_Good_Hope/introduction_afrikaans/27.htm 24 March 2005 Rosenthal, Eric, Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Juta and Company Limited, Cape Town and Johannesburg, 1978. Events The VOC sends soldiers aboard the Gouda and Zeelandia to occupy Rio de Lagoa, or Delagoa Bay.General South African History Timeline: 1700s South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1700s 2025-03-05 www.sahistory.org.za At this time, the Tembe chiefdom controlled trade.Chewins Linell February 2025 TRADE AT DELAGOA BAY: THE INFLUENCE OF TRADE ON POLITICAL STRUCTURES, 1721-1799 https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstreams/b15059ae-f4de-4264-9615-556befc5bf27/download University of the Witwatersrand 2,6,8,10,11,13,15,26,29,37,38,39,78,83,87,93,100,101,103,104,113,120,140,145,147 History Department Johan Cornelis d'Ableing, former acting Governor of the Cape, dies. Maurits Pasques de Chavonnes is promoted from Cape Colony Governor to Justice of India.Governor Mauritz Pasque de Chavonnes and the First Military Uniforms at the Cape http://rapidttp.com/milhist/vol062ds.html Nicolaus Laubscher, founder of Oranjezicht, dies.Adolphe Linder, The Swiss at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1971 (Basel: Basel Afrika Bibliographien, 1997), pp. 64–69.Pieter van Breda's dates from C. C. de Villiers, Geslagsregisters van die ou Kaapse families / Genealogies of Old South African Families, rev. ed. by C. Pama, 3 vols. (Cape Town: Balkema, 1966), 1: 96. A slave trading operation is established in Rio de Lagoa, where the VOC trade about 25 slaves annually.History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/history-slavery-and-early-colonisation-south-africa 2025-03-05 www.sahistory.org.za Elephant herds disappeared from the Delagoa region, affecting the VOC ivory trade. Drought severely affects South East African gardening efforts, with temperatures too high and no consistent rainy season. The first barrel of blue beads arrives at Delagoa Bay for trade. Ivory is withheld until Dutch ships are prepared to leave, as the locals are suspecting a secret bead stash. There is a high mortality rate at the VOC post in Delagoa, as two-thirds of the 620 men die in six weeks. References 1721 in