1853 in South Africa

Events

• The 8th Cape Frontier War ends
• The settlement of Hopetown is established
• Nicholaas Waterboer, eldest son of Andries Waterboer succeeds as Griqua captain
• The settlement of Queenstown is established
• The settlement of Seymour is established
• The Union Steamship Line is founded
• the right to vote is granted to every property-owning male in the Cape Province. This right was abolished with the introduction of Apartheid in 1948

  Births

• 20 August - Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, landscape painter, is born near Riversdale, Cape Colony

  Deaths

• 23 July - Andries Pretorius, Voortrekker leader