1916 in South Africa

Events

• 15 - 19 July - 766 men from the South African Brigade are killed during the Battle of Delville Wood in South Africa's biggest loss in World War I

Births

• 12 January - Pieter Willem Botha, Former prime minister and state president of South Africa is born on the farm Telegraaf in Paul Roux district, Orange Free State
• 28 March - Abraham Manie Adelstein, United Kingdom's Chief Medical Statistician, is born

Deaths

• 5 June - Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener drowns when the HMS Hampshire sinks after being hit by a German mine near the Orkney Islands. Fritz Joubert Duquesne, a confirmed Boer and German spy, claims to have sabotaged the HMS Hampshire and becomes known as: The man who killed Kitchner (also the title of a book by Clement Wood).
• 28 November - Martinus Theunis Steyn, last State President of the Orange Free State, dies at Bloemfontein while addressing a meeting. He was 59 years old.