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EVENTS

May

4 May - Boer General Jan Smuts meets with the British General Horatio Kitchener at Kroonstad

6 May - Qulusi- Zulu chief Sokhobobo attacks Field-cornet Potgieter and 70 Boers while sleeping with a 300 strong impi leaving 56 Boers and 52 Zulus dead in the Holkrantz Massacre

31 May - The Second Boer War ends with the signing of the Treaty Of Vereeniging at Pretoria

Unknown date

James Stevenson-Hamilton is appointed the first warden of the Kruger National Park

BIRTHS

DEATHS

26 March - Cecil Rhodes

2 May - Jan Stephanus De Villiers , composer and organist, dies in Paarl , Cape Colony