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… George Whitehouse, a British engineer, decides to build a workshop for Uganda …

… Bloemfontein Conference between President Paul Kruger and British High Commissioner Sir Alfred Milner, under President …

… Henry Bathurst, statesman and creator of the British Colonial Office, is born in Gloucestershire, …

… British premier Winston Churchill says the Suez Canal will be …

… The Stern gang blows up a train carrying British troops between Cairo and Haifa, killing twenty-seven …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: The British relieves Ladysmith after a siege of four months when …

… A fire breaks out on Table Mountain after a British tourist allegedly flights a lit cigarette out of a …

… War 2: Danish farmers donate 12 000 boxes of butter to British troops in South Africa. …

… British Togoland (a UN trust, once part of the German colony …

… Following a personal apology from President P.W. Botha to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the "blowpipe …

… Xhosa tribesmen attack British forces at Burn’s Hill in the Amatola, in the War of …

… General China, the operation undertaken by British authorities against the Mau Mau in Kenya, ends in …

… General China, the operation undertaken by British authorities against the Mau Mau in Kenya, ends in …

… WWII:  British forces under Archibald Wavell evacuate Benghazi, …

… independence of the ZAR. The Transvaal Triumvirate and a British R …

… The British Sports Council urges the International Olympic …

… Pondo king Sigcau, son of Umquikela, agrees to become a British subject, thereby placing Pondoland under the Crown. …

… Sir Bartle Frere is named British High Commissioner of South Africa with instructions …

… Sir Bartle Frere is named British High Commissioner of South Africa with instructions …

… Theodore Roosevelt kills three lions whilst on safari in British East Africa (now Kenya). …

… British racing driver Tom Pryce dies in a freak accident …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops under General Neville Lyttelton and General …

… next to Lake Victoria, in Tanganyika (name given to the British colony in Tanzania’s territory from 1919 until 1961). … in May 1961. The country gained its independence from the British in December 1961 and Nyerere was officially elected …

… of General Louis Botha. He escaped and rejoined the British forces as an honorary member of the Imperial Light …

… became rivals.   Meanwhile Mpande was faced with both British and Afrikaner settlers on his borders, and he tried … threatening his power, and he again appealed to both the British and the Afrikaners for support. The British official  Theophilus Shepstone  encouraged Cetshwayo …

… a member of the deputation charged with appealing to the British government against the Act. The mission proved … South Africa. Late in 1919 he took part in a meeting with British Prime Minister Lloyd George. In December 1920 he went … : An Epic on Sex-Relationship ' Twixt White and Black in British South Africa (1921), and translations of four …

… convince English clubs to accept him. He wrote to a famous British commentator, John Arlott who was considered the doyen of cricket commentators at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). In February 1960 a … of England conferred D’Oliveira with the Companion of the British Empire (CBE) for his contribution to English cricket. …

… in the midst of chaos, many turned to Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists. It was Scott’s opposition to … it was presented as a choice between remaining in the British Empire or existing outside the Commonwealth as a … to London and find a base from which he could lobby the British Government.  Taking up with the Friends International …

… some Afrikaners in the Cape not to rebel against the British crown. Between March and April 1901, Sauer together … with John X Merriman  went England to persuade the British to settle conflict in South Africa peacefully, but …

… had met. He succeeded Essop Mia as the Chairperson of the British Indian Association in September of 1910. His son Ali …