1899 in South Africa

1899 in South Africa

"See also:"
1898 in South Africa,
other events of 1899,
1900 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

April

* The Transvaal government orders Asiatics to move into "Locations" specified by the government before the 1 July

May

* 5 May - Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner of South Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony sends a telegram to Joseph Chamberlain urging him to intervene in South African Republic

October

* 1 October - Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman (aka Bosman de Ravelli), a concert pianist and composer leaves South Africa for London
* 11 October - The South African Republic declares war on Britain and launches the Second Boer War which only ends in 1902
* 14 October - Kimberley comes under siege by the Boers

Births

* 30 January - Max Theiler, a virologist and the first South African to receive a Nobel Prize (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), is born in Pretoria
* 18 February - Aegidius Jean Blignaut, short story writer and creator of Hottentot Ruiter is born in Kroonstad.

Deaths

* 6 June - Henry Binns, sugar cane farmer, founder of the Umhlanga Valley Sugar Estate Company and Natal politician, dies in Pietermaritzburg at the age of 61


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