1853 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 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 (including Africans) 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 (54), Voortrekker leader