1899 in South Africa

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	1899 in South Africa
1896 1897 1898 « 1899 » 1900 1901 1902
Timeline of South African history

Events

April

• The Transvaal government orders Asiatics to move into Locations specified by the government before the 1 July

May

• 4 May - Cape Town based food packaging company Imperial Cold Storage and Supply Company was founded in London at a cost of GB£272,000 (equivalent to £112,000,000 in 2010).^[1]
• 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
• 30 October - Start of the Siege of Ladysmith

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.

Deaths

• 6 June - Sir Henry Binns, sugar cane farmer, founder of the Umhlanga Valley Sugar Estate Company and Natal politician, dies in Pietermaritzburg at the age of 61

References