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EVENTS

12 March - Andries Dreyer , an archivist of the Dutch Reformed Church , is ordained as a missionary of the congregation in Cape Town for the Hanover Street area

The ''County of Pembroke'', a British cargo ship, is shipwrecked near Port Elizabeth

BIRTHS

11 January - Alan Paton , Author and founder of the South African Liberal Party is born in Pietermaritzburg , Natal Colony

21 March - John Beaver Marks , political Activist and trade unionist, is born in Ventersdorp

4 May - Hendrik Susan , Orchestra leader and Violist , is born

--- Louise Behrens , Novel ist and Afrikaans Journalist , is born in the Orange Free State

DEATHS

13 March - General David Johannes Joubert ''(Ou Kat)'', a South African explorer to East Africa, dies of Malaria near Dar Es Salaam , Tanzania .