BRITAIN’s Prince Edward is due to visit South Africa next weekend for the commemoration of the centenary of the Boer War, the British High Commission said on Monday. The prince, the third son of Queen Elizabeth II who she recently made the Duke of Kent, will along with President Thabo Mbeki attend the official launch of centenary commemorations in the central city of Bloemfontein next Saturday, a spokesman for the High Commission said. The prince will also visit Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, two of the main battle sites of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War, in which Zulu warriors tried to drive the British from their land. Queen Elizabeth will attend events commemorating the British campaign against white South African settlers known as the Boer War, which was fought between 1899 and 1902, when she visits South Africa in November.