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EVENTS

The construction of Alfred Dock is completed Table Bay , Cape Town

BIRTHS

24 May - Jan Christiaan Smuts , a South African statesman and soldier is born near Riebeeck West , in the Cape Colony

10 September - Gabriël Gideon Cillié , a professor and member of the head committee of the Federasie Van Afrikaanse Kultuurverenigings , is born

DEATHS

11 March - King Moshoeshoe I , seen as the father of the Basotho people and for creating Lesotho dies