nomadic Khoikhoi in the colony to certain restrictions 1789 The start of the French Revolution The Dutch East India Company, filled with corruption, becomes financially unstable Merino sheep is imported from the Netherlands Xhosa tribes started moving back into the Zuurveld, a district between the Sundays and the Great Fish Rivers and clashing with the frontiersmen which is known as the start of the Second Cape Frontier War. Births 12 November 1780 - Piet Retief, Voortrekker leader is born at Wagenmakersvallei, Cape Colony. (d. 1838) 10 August 1783 - Louis Tregardt, Voortrekker leader, is born at Kango, in the Swellendam District. (d. 1838) July 1787 - Shaka kaSenzangakhona, Zulu monarch, is born near present-day Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal Province. (d. 1828) 1789 - Andries Waterboer, founder of the Waterboer dynasty of Griqualand West is born north of the Gariep river. (d. 1852) Deaths 23 July 1781 - Martin Melck, the founder of the Lutheran church in Strand Street, Cape Town References See Years in South Africa for list of more References History of South Africa