1903 in South Africa

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	1903 in South Africa
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Years in South Africa

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 Liberal Party of South Africa 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
• 4 May - Louise Behrens, novelist and Afrikaans journalist, is born in the Orange Free State
• 8 October - Mikro (Pseudonym for Christoffel Hermanus Kühn), 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.