1901 in South Africa

1901 in South Africa

"See also:"
1900 in South Africa,
other events of 1901,
1902 in South Africa and the
Timeline of South African history.

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Events

January

* 15 January - The "HMS Sybille", a 3400 ton Apollo class cruiser struck a reef about 5 km south of Lamberts Bay
* 31 January - General Jan Smuts and his commandos captures Modderfontein, Transvaal, during the Second Boer War. A large of number of Black Africans are massacred at Modderontein by the commandos

February

* 1 February - Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town

May

* 31 May - Officially unrecognized Zulu king Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boers in the Second Boer War

July

* 2 July - 6 Boer prisoners are murdered by members of the Bushveld Carabineers in the Spelonken area, near Louis Trichardt during the Second Boer War

August

* 20 August - General De la Rey's 84 year old mother is sent to a concentration camp at Klerksdorp

eptember

* 17 September - Commandant-General Louis Botha and General Cecil "Cherry" Cheere Emmett join forces to invade Natal during the Second Boer War

October

* Mahatma Gandhi embarks at Durban for Mauritius enroute to Bombay

November

* 1 November - Standard Bank of South Africa opens its second branch in Johannesburg on Eloff Street
* 9 November the electric tramline in Cape Town was extended to Camps Bay and Sea Point

Births

* 8 September - Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd is born in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Deaths

* 19 May - Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, the first president of the South African Republic and founder of Pretoria, dies at the age of 81


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