The following lists events that happened during 1815 in South Africa.

• Shaka becomes king of the Zulus
• Colonial army crushes Slachter's Nek Rebellion.^[1]
• Gov. Lord Somerset forces Ngqika into alliance to prevent cattle raiding.
• 30 May - The Arniston, a British troop transport East Indiaman, is wrecked at Waenhuiskrans near Cape Agulhas while returning from the British campaigns in Ceylon

• 12 March - Cornelis Moll, founder of the first Natal newspaper De Natalier, is born as the 24th child in Cape Town

• 29 December - Saartjie Baartman, the "Hottentot Venus", dies in Paris.

See Years in South Africa for list of References