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1900 - Clements and Paget attack de Wet at Bethlehem. General Buller reports railway communication completed between Natal and Pretoria

1901 -
....An eye-witness furnishes some particulars of the doings of Scheeper at Murraysburg. On the 6th inst. the Boer commandant and his forty men had a gala day, burning the public offices, etc. They also burned the farm at Vleipaats belonging to Mr. Herholdt, member of the Cape Legislative Council. Scheepers stated his intention of burning the magistrate's residence on his return to the village, and many loyalists, including the acting magistrate, the clerk, and the postmaster were given twenty-four hours to leave. A proclamation was then issued by Scheepers declaring that as the inhabitants were not protected by the British he proclaimed Murraysburg to be Free State territory, and promised to protect the people from the English and to issue supplies. At the same time he threatened to burn the farm of any man who gave information to the British and to deport him with his stock to the nearest Boer military post. Scheepers declared that his next bonfire would be Richmond. Malan's, Breedt's, and Smit's commandos were at Badfontein, near Murraysburg, on July 5, and left on the following day for Scheitkuil, 40 miles hence, going in the direction of Victoria West.
The Burnley Express, Saturday 13th July 1901

A wedding anniversary from 1945 for James Bennett Mumford, a Mafeking siege defender:

Born Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England, 19 November 1873. Educated at Wyggeston Hospital Boys' School, 1882. Sailed to South Africa in 1897. Enlisted in the PRFF 9 September 1899 and posted to A Squadron. Age 25. Trade: Clerk. NOK: Brother, Kettering, Northamptonshire. Hospital Corporal, 12 September 1899. Discharged 9 September 1900. Character good. Address after discharge: c/o Messrs Cleghorn and Harris, Adderley Street, Cape Town. Worked as a clerk in Kimberley. Freemason of the Charles Warren Lodge, Kimberley, 27 June 1901 to 14 June 1909. He married Elizabeth Stewart in Kimberley, 9 March 1904. He next married Doris Adeline Mansfield in Durban, 6 July 1945 when he was 71 and Doris was 41. He died in Durban, 19 May 1949. Described as a commercial accountant. He resided at 1 Mowbray Place, Durban