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EventAfrikaans author, Lulu Latsky is born
Louise (Lulu) Latsky, favourite author of Afrikaans books, mostly for children, was born in Carnarvon, in the Karoo region of South Africa. Latsky was known…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, was born in Kimberley in 1901, the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana mineworker who later opened a…
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
Former Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, former South African prime minister and chief architect of apartheid was born in…
The Duke of Cornwall, later King George V of Britain, lays the cornerstone of St George’s cathedral in Cape Town
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
The Anglo-Boer War broke out in 1899 and was the result of the British annexation of the Transvaal, soon after gold had been discovered in the region in 1886…
EventLord Milner leaves England to return to SA
Lord Alfred Milner, the British High Commissioner who played a prominent role in causing the South African War returned to South Africa to become British…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
Paul Sanford Methuen (b. 1845 d.1932) was the 3rd Baron Methuen and a soldier all his life. Before arriving in South Africa in 1899, he had served in the Ango…
EventEmily Hobhouse receives a reply to her request to be included in the Ladies Commission
On 26 July 1901 Emily Hobhouse wrote a second letter to St John Rodrick asking for reasons for the War Department's refusal to include her in the Ladies…
EventEmily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps
Emily Hobhouse addressed public meetings in Britain about the conditions of the Concentration camps during the South African War. These campaigns were aimed at…
EventBremersdorp is burnt
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
During Anglo-Boer War 2 (also called South African War) between the two former Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State Republic)…
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett in 1901, was established as a result of an outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps…
EventPretoria Boys High School opens
The Staatsmodelskool (State Model School), started in 1893 by President Paul Kruger in central Pretoria, was refurbished by Lord Alfred Milner and opened as…
EventHeroic act by boer soldier Windvogel
During the South African War (Anglo-Boer War 2), General Kemp attacked Brigadier-General Dixon at Vlakfontein and captured the field guns. Dixon launched a…
EventDinuzulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against Boers
King Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo of the Zulu Kingdom in northern Natal, which is now part of the Kwazulu-Natal province, refused to follow British instructions to…
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
Allegedly Zulu Paramount Chief Dinuzulu (Dinizulu) refused British instructions to take up arms against the Boer republics during the Second Anglo-Boer War…
EventBoer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius dies
Boer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, died at his home in Potchefstroom at the age…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ dynamited
During the Anglo-Boer War II, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the state Artillery of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic, also…
EventThe Great Comet of 1901
On 24 April 1901 a comet that became known as 'The Great Comet of 1901' or 'Viscara' was visible to the naked eye over most of South Africa. The comet was…
EventZulu army returns to Nongoma
The Zulu army ordered to arm by Col. Bottomley to assist the British during the Anglo-Boer War, marched back to Nongoma. Two Zulus were killed in confrontation…
EventEfforts to End the Anglo Boer War fail
Lord Kitchener meets with General Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacceptable. The battle of…
EventThe Anglo Boer War
Britain sends 30 000 additional troops to South Africa in the Anglo-Boer War (now called the South African War). Initially, the British government thought that…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
The Battle of Chrissiesmeer (Lake Chrissie) during Anglo-Boer War 2 started with an attack by General Louis Botha on the British forces under General Smith…
EventEmily Hobhouse reports on her findings regarding concentration camps during the Second Anglo Boer War
Emily Hobhouse, an English philanthropist and social worker who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free State Republics during the Second Anglo Boer War,…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
The arrival of Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts, with the latter taking up the role of Supreme Commander of British forces in 1900 helped turn the tide in the…
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
English social worker and reformer Emily Hobhouse, renowned for her exposure of conditions in concentration camps for Boer women and children during the Second…
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
On Lord Roberts' return to England in November 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeded him as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces during the second Anglo Boer War …
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
The first 2 'refugee' camps were established in Pretoria and Bloemfontein during South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War) by a military notice. The initial…
EventThe cornerstone of Cape Town City Hall is laid
Cape Towns City Hall's original foundations were laid at the turn of the 20th Century. The mayor of Cape Town, Thomas Ball, laid the corner stone of the City…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek begins
There is a pass in the Magaliesberg known as Silkaatsnek It was here that the two 12-pounder guns of 'O' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery (RHA), were placed and…