 This continued under the rule of Ngwane V until the outbreak of the Second Boer War in October 1899.King Ngwane V died in December 1899 during incwala after the outbreak of the Boer war when his successor, Sobhuza, was only four months old.Swaziland was indirectly involved in the war with various skirmishes between the British and the Boers occurring in the country until 1902.