Lord Milner

Date: 10 August, 1901

Lord Alfred Milner, the British High Commissioner who played a prominent role in causing the South African War returned to South Africa to become British administrator for the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. His other responsibility was to negotiate a peace treaty that ended the South African War. Milner was also tasked with reconstructing South Africa. To that effect he introduced a policy of reconstruction dubbed "reconstruction under arms".

Click here to read about Milner's reconstruction of South Africa.

Source

Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo Boer War: a chronology, Pretoria: Lapa.