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The Jameson Raid
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Mar 21, 2011

The Jameson Raid

By 1895 Britain was getting more confident about taking action in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonia...

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Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
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Mar 21, 2011

Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising

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First Anglo Boer War
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Mar 21, 2011

First Anglo Boer War

Causes of the War The First Anglo-Boer is also known as the First Transvaal War of Independence because the conflict ...

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Anglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
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Mar 21, 2011

Anglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896

The destruction of the Zulu kingdom 1879 -1896 In the 1870s settler and colonial determination to bring Blacks under fi...

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Pedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
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Mar 21, 2011

Pedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879

The largest North-Sotho language group in South Africa are the Bapedi group, who arrived in the northern province around...

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Basotho Wars 1858 - 1868
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Mar 21, 2011

Basotho Wars 1858 - 1868

The three Basotho Wars (1858-68) and the formation of Lesotho The conflict between the Basotho people and White settl...

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Battle of Blood River 1838
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Mar 21, 2011

Battle of Blood River 1838

In the early hours of the morning of 16 December 1838, a battle was fought between the Voortrekkers, under the leadershi...

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Matabele Wars 1836-1896
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Mar 21, 2011

Matabele Wars 1836-1896

The reign of Mzilikazi Under the leadership of Mzilikazi, the people who came to be called the Ndebele in Zimbabwe (ori...

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Mar 21, 2011

First Matabele War

In 1890 Cecil John Rhodes became premier of South Africa with the support of the Afrikaner Bond. Rhodes' grand imper...

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Great Trek 1835-1846
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Mar 21, 2011

Great Trek 1835-1846

The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land wher...

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Batavian Republic 1803-1806
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Mar 21, 2011

Batavian Republic 1803-1806

After the French Revolution, the newly founded Republic of France conquered the Netherlands in 1795. The Netherlands bec...

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Eastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
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Mar 21, 2011

Eastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878

The series of clashes historically known as, Frontier Wars date back to 1779 when Xhosa people, Boers, Khoikhoi, San and...

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Mar 21, 2011

Liberation

"We the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare our need for all the world t...

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Mar 21, 2011

TCOE Online Exhibition

Photo-documentary Exhibition and Land dispossession history The text and gallery of images within this feature are con...

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Mar 21, 2011

Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s

In all countries where market-assisted land reforms have been undertaken, the outcomes have been disappointing. In the c...

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