1850 in South Africa
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See also: 1849 in South Africa, other events of 1850, 1851 in South Africa and the Timeline of South African history.
[edit] 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
[edit] Births
- 9 April - Julius Charles Wernher, financier and mine magnate
- 23 April - Andries Jacobus Bester, the Boer commandant of the Bethlehem commando, is born in Bloemfontein
