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| 1900 |
| | | Paul Kruger flees after the British take Pretoria and annexe both the Boer republics | |
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| 1900 |
| | | The relief of Mafeking ends a long siege which brings fame to the British commander of the garrison, Robert Baden-Powell | |
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| 1901 |
| | | Thousands of women and children die in the concentration camps used by the British army for displaced Boer families | |
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| 1902 |
| | | A treaty at Vereeniging ends the Boer War and brings the Boer republics under British control | |
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| 1902 |
| | | After the defeat of neighbouring Transvaal in the Boer War, the British take sole control of Swaziland | |
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| 1903 |
| | | Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi | |
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| 1904 |
| | | A violent uprising by Herrero warriors in South West Africa targets male Germans of military age | |
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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 |
| | | The largest diamond yet known is found in a South African mine belonging to Thomas Cullinan | |
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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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