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EVENTS

The first Afrikaans book is written by an imam ( Muslim prayer leader) of slave descent

Wesleyan settlers arrive in Natal

The "Childe Herold", a British ship en route from Bombay to London is wrecked off Dassen Island , Cape Colony

23 April - A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to grant the Cape Colony a government

BIRTHS

23 April - Andries Jacobus Bester , the Boer commandant of the Bethlehem commando, is born in Bloemfontein

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