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==Events== ;January * 15 – The ''HMS Sybille'', a 3400-ton Apollo class cruiser, strikes a reef about 5 km south of Lamberts Bay. * 31 – General Jan Smuts and his commandos capture Modderfontein, Transvaal, during the Second Boer War. ;February * 1 – Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town. ;May * 31 – Officially unrecognized Zulu king Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boers in the Second Boer War. ;June * Emily Hobhouse reports on the genocide in the 45 British concentration camps for Boer women and children in which, over an 18-month period, 26,370 people would die, 24,000 of them children under 16. Exact mortality figures in the 64 concentration camps for black displaced farm workers and their families are not known, but even worse. ;July * 2–6 – Boer prisoners-of-war are murdered by Australian members of the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Spelonken area near Louis Trichardt during the Second Boer War. * 16 – The Fawcett Commission is established to look at living conditions of women and children, including water supply, sanitation, medical care and the mortality and birth rates in the concentration camps. ;August * 4 – Lieutenant-general Paul Methuen destroyed the village of Schweizer-Reneke under the British scorched earth policy 〔http://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/anglo-boer-war-2-lord-methuen-british-general-destroys-village-schweizer-reneke〕 * 20 – General Koos de la Rey's 84-year-old mother is sent to a concentration camp at Klerksdorp. ;September * 17 – 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 en route to Bombay. ;November * 1 – Standard Bank opens its second branch in Johannesburg on Eloff Street. * 9 – The electric tramline in Cape Town is extended from Sea Point to Camps Bay. * 18 – Boer commandos invade the Cape Colony and come to within 50 miles of Cape town. ;December * 22 – Peace Sunday and Charles Aked, a Baptist minister in Liverpool, says: "Great Britain cannot win the battles without resorting to the last despicable cowardice of the most loathsome cur on earth — the act of striking a brave man's heart through his wife's honour and his child's life. The cowardly war has been conducted by methods of barbarism... the concentration camps have been Murder Camps." A crowd follows him home and breaks the windows of his house. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1901 in South Africa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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