title: 1825 in South Africa
text: # 1825 in South Africa
  
  The following lists events that happened during 1825 in South Africa.
  
  ## Events
  
  * The Dutch Reformed Church establish a congregation in Somerset East
  * The first steamship arrives in Table Bay
  * The depreciated rix dollar is converted into the British sterling
  * The Anglican St. Mary's Collegiate Church is started in Port Elizabeth
  
  ## Births
  
  * 17 September - Donald Currie, shipping magnate and donor of the Currie Cups for rugby union and cricket, is born in Greenock, Scotland
  * 10 October - Stephanus Johannes Paul Kruger is born in Cradock, Cape Colony
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 31 January - Petrus Johannes Truter (77), explorer and official in the East India Company, dies in Swellendam
  