1903 in South Africa

1903 in South Africa

"See also:"
1902 in South Africa,
other events of 1903,
1904 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

* The "County of Pembroke", a British cargo ship, is shipwrecked near Port Elizabeth
* February - Mahatma Gandhi enrolled to the Bar of the Transvaal Supreme Court
* 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
* 21 May - The first contingent of Chinese labourers leaves China to work as cheap labour on the Witwatersrand gold mines
* 4 June - The Indian Opinion is started by Mahatma Gandhi with Mansukhlal Nazar as editor

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, novelist and Afrikaans journalist, is born in the Orange Free State
* 8 October - Christoffel Hermanus Kühn "Mikro", writer and poet is born at Van Reenens Farm in Williston district, Cape Colony

Deaths

* 13 March - General David Johannes Joubert "(Ou Kat)", a South African explorer to East Africa, dies of malaria near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.


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