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| 1904 |
| | | The German general Lothar von Trotha drives 8000 Herrero people to slow death in the Kalahari desert | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Transvaal politician Louis Botha forms Het Volk ('The People'), a party committed to Afrikaner self-government | |
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| 1905 |
| | | Kaiser Wilhelm II visits Tangier in support of Moroccan independence, causing a diplomatic crisis with the colonial powers France and Britain | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The largest diamond yet known is found in a South African mine belonging to Thomas Cullinan | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Maji-Maji rising results in alarming outbreaks of violence in German East Africa | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The German commander in east Africa uses famine as a means of ending the Maji-Maji rising | |
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| 1906 |
| | | An international conference at Algeciras effectively gives France informal control of Morocco | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi, confronted by racial discrimination in South Africa, launches a programme of passive resistance (satyagraha) | |
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| 1906 |
| | | Transvaal is given the self-governing status promised in the treaty ending the Boer War | |
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| 1907 |
| | | The Transvaal government presents to Edward VII the Cullinan diamond, now part of the British crown jewels | |
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