title: 1841 in South Africa
text: # 1841 in South Africa
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1841 in South Africa.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Missionary David Livingstone arrives in the Cape Colony and proceeds to Kuruman before journeying through Central Africa.
  * Voortrekkers set up a council in Potchefstroom
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1 May - Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, acting Governor of the Cape Colony who supervised the arrival and settling of the British settlers and who founded Port Elizabeth, dies in Southampton, England
  