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EVENTS

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

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