The following lists events that happened during 1819 in South Africa. Events The 5th Cape Frontier War ends Dutch Reformed Church congregations are founded in Beaufort West and Somerset West Births 17 September - Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, the first president of the South African Republic and founder of Pretoria, is born on the farm Pretoriuskloof in the Graaff-Reinet district of the Cape Colony References See Years in South Africa for list of References South Africa Years in South Africa