1899 in South Africa
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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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[edit] Events
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
