1813 in South Africa
# 1813 in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during 1813 in South Africa.

## Events

* Adam Kok III's people assert the name Griqua
* Court proceedings are now opened to the public in the Cape Colony
* A Dutch Reformed Church is established in George
* 2 November - Lord Charles Henry Somerset is appointed Governor of the Cape

## Births

* 19 March - David Livingstone, explorer and missionary, is born in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
* 1 May 1813 - João Albasini, an Italian trader, Bantu commissioner and the white chief of the Magwamba tribe, is born in Portugal
