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1900s
The 1900s have been broken into decades

1900 7 May    
Paul Kruger addresses the volksraad for the last time before being forced to travel on the Delagoa line to Machadodorp, where he lives on his train carriage.

1900 11 September    
Accompanied by his private secretary, Paul Kruger crosses the Komatipoort border .

1900 19 October    
Paul Kruger goes on board the Dutch cruiser, De Gelderland, that is diverted from sea by Queen Wilhelmina of Holland.

1900 22 November    
Paul Kruger reaches Marseilles and embarks on a voyage to create enthusiasm for the Boer cause, with some success. However, not one government does anything concrete for the Boers.

1901 July    
Paul Kruger's wife, Gezina Susanna Frederika Wilhelmina, dies in Pretoria.

1902      
An archives branch of the Department of the Colonial Secretary is established with the purpose of taking intellectual and physical control of the archival records of the former Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek.

1902 May    
A peace treaty is signed. Paul Kruger moves to Mentone, on the French Riviera.

1903      
Fietas, Johannesburg: 5 stands are transferred to Indians.

1903 October    
Paul Kruger moves to warmer climate of Mentone.

1904      
Fietas, Johannesburg: The ‘Coolie Location' is struck by bubonic plague.

1904 - 1907      
Fietas, Johannesburg: 48 stands are transferred to Indians.

1904 - 1934      
Fietas, Johannesburg: Indians increasingly become stand-holders.

1904 20 March    
Fietas, Johannesburg: The mixed population is evacuated and the area burned to the ground.

1904 24 May    
Paul Kruger establishes himself in a villa at Clarens on lake Geneva.

1904 July    
Fietas, Johannesburg: Most of the evacuees start moving back into the urban centre, mostly into the ‘Malay Location', one of the view areas for legal ‘non-white' occupation.

1904 14 July    
Paul Kruger dies from cardiac failure, after a period of illness. He is buried next to his wife, Gezina Susanna Frederika Wilhelmina, in Pretoria.

1909 5 September    
Fietas, Johannesburg: Dr Yusuf Dadoo is born.




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