1902 in South Africa

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

December

• Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban from Bombay

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