The following lists events that happened during 1902 in South Africa. Incumbents Cape Colony Governor of the Cape of Good Hope: Walter Hely-Hutchinson. Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: John Gordon Sprigg. Natal Governor of the Colony of Natal: Henry Edward McCallum. Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Albert Henry Hime. Orange Free State / Orange River Colony State President of the Orange Free State: Martinus Theunis Steyn (until 31 May). Governor of the Orange River Colony and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner. Lieutenant-Governor of the Orange River Colony: Hamilton Goold-Adams. South African Republic / Transvaal State President of the South African Republic: Paul Kruger (until 31 May) (in exile); Schalk Willem Burger (acting until 31 May). Governor of the Transvaal and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner. Lieutenant-Governor of the Transvaal: Sir Arthur Lawley. Events February 27 – Breaker Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria for the murder of Boer prisoners of war near Louis Trichardt. March 7 – The Burghers win their last battle over British forces, with the capture of a British general and 200 of his men. April 4 – The town Concordia in Namaqualand surrenders to Boer forces. 8 – O'okiep is besieged by Boer forces under General Jan Smuts. May 1 – Boer commandos use the locomotive Pioneer to propel a truck-load of dynamite into the besieged O'okiep. 4 – Boer General Jan Smuts meets with the British General Herbert Kitchener at Kroonstad. 6 – Qulusi-Zulu chief Sikhobobo with a 300-strong impi attacks Field-cornet Potgieter and 70 Boers while sleeping, leaving 56 Burghers and 52 Zulus dead in the Battle of Holkrans. 31 – The Second Boer War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging at Melrose House in Pretoria. December Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban from Bombay. Unknown date James Stevenson-Hamilton is appointed the first warden of the Sabie Game Reserve. Births 1 January – Buster Nupen, South African cricketer. (d. 1977) Deaths 26 March – Cecil John Rhodes, businessman, mining magnate, imperialist and politician. 2 May – Jan Stephanus de Villiers, composer and organist, dies in Paarl. Railways Railway lines opened 1 May – Free State – Bloemfontein to Sannaspos, . 18 July – Natal – Tugela to Mhlatuze, . 1 August – Cape Midland – Cookhouse to Somerset East, . 1 August – Cape Midland