This Day in History: 21 May 1910
A former member of the Volksraad of the South African Republic (Transvaal), representing the Vryheid district in 1897 and also Boer general during Anglo-Boer War 2, Louis Botha, was instructed by Governor-General Herbert Gladstone to constitute a government in terms of the South Africa's Act. He then became the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, which was to be inaugurated on 31 May.
