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PlaceLeipoldtville, West Coast
Leipoldtville, a very small historical town, ideally situated to use as a base or stay over from where to explore the surrounding West Coast towns…
EventAs part of a defiance campaign against the apartheid Government, SA is hit by a nationwide wave of protests
… in Oudtshoorn in the Cape. Ironically, rallies by neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) and a splinter group the …
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… that the British favored Black and Coloured farmers over Afrikaner farmers. Burghers (farmers) in the surrounding …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… organization that Isaac helped found as a response to the Afrikaner Bond , was the Imbumba Yamanyama (meaning unity in …
EventEducation Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can’t to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking
… in 1866, Stellenbosch University had maintained a white Afrikaner student body through the use of the Afrikaans …
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan's Day
… 16 remained a rallying point for the development of Afrikaner nationalism, culture and identity. However, in 1952 …
EventEducation Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can't to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking
… in 1866, Stellenbosch University had maintained a white Afrikaner student body through the use of the Afrikaans …
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… whites in the Transvaal, the Transvaaler Afrikaner, could not have started the First War of … national calling. Dr Malan stated: ‘The history of the…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… liberals who subscribed to the old Cape egalitarian ideal of equal rights for “civilised” men, irrespective of …
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… play several musical instruments. In 1947, just before the Afrikaner Nationalist party came to power, Gerard Sekoto left …
EventThe First Anglo-Boer War: Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Majuba
… the fierce independence of Afrikaners in the Transvaal. An Afrikaner revolt in December 1880, led by Paul Kruger , …
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… It was then I began to understand the tragedy of the Afrikaner people. Nevertheless my love for the English … why Mr. Sachs, who was a Jew, fought so hard…
PlacePort Shepstone, South Coast of KZN
… with warm waters rich in marine life. These waters are ideal for fishing, snorkeling, scuba diving and swimming. The 18 km of Coastline and stretches of…
PlaceIsipingo, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… at the Dakota Beach with his family or friends. “It’s ideal for family outings. There’s security at the gate as …
Statement by Malusi Gigaba, ANCYL President, at the funeral of Cde Wanga Sigila, late SASCO Deputy President, Cape Town 23 October 1999
… when national liberation was attained. He sought a higher ideal; he fought for a higher type of society; and concluded that such an ideal society was a…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… participation in its formation and future. The British and Afrikaner land owners and industrialists set in motion a … and an election candidate for Tembuland…
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… arms, results of a security police beating (slide 2); an Afrikaner soldier offers a stiff salute beside the graves of …
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… speech made at Smithfield, in which he called for a pro-Afrikaner form of South African nationalism. Hertzog became …
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… him. Holomisa also alleged that members of the right-wing Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) were involved in guerrilla …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… wing. The O.B. was an ultra right wing, underground Afrikaner movement opposed to South Africa's participation in …
PlaceDal Josafat, Paarl
The name is of biblical origin, also spelled: "Dal Josafat or Dal Josaphat". Dal Josafat has an interesting and varied selection of Buildings dating from…
PlaceSanddrift, Richtersveld
… before the Richtersveld National Park, Sanddrift is the ideal place to stop-over. …
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… for all South Africans, black and white. Let us pursue the ideal for which Madiba has fought his entire life – the ideal of a democratic and free society, in…
PlaceBurgersdorp, E.C.
… in the North Eastern Cape has been a pivotal point in Afrikaner: History; Culture and Religion. Many Towns in South … Anglo-Boer War. A Monument was…
PlaceBram Fischer International Airport, Bloemfontein
Bram Fischer International Airport is an important Gateway to the Free State, a land-locked Province. The Airport was opened in November 1961 and the Runways…
PlaceTransvaal Province
The Transvaal is a historical region and former Province of South Africa, located North of the Vaal River, that existed from 1910 to 1994. It's now part of the…
PlaceZonnebloem College, Cape Town
… of South Africa in 1910 – where the racially motivated Afrikaner republics lost the Boer War but won the peace …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, 25 October 1996
… This University was the leading intellectual home of Afrikaner Nationalism. It was from this University that … a democratic South Africa. Tonight this one…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… But I want to say that the survival not only of the Afrikaner, but of all the peoples of South Africa depends on … and discovered that Afrikaans was in…
PlaceThaba Tshwane or Voortrekkerhoogte
… of the nearby Voortrekker Monument , at a time of growing Afrikaner Nationalism. The oldest building in the complex is …