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Andries Jacobus Bester, Boer commandant, is born in Bloemfontein
… Andries Jacobus Bester, Boer commandant of the Bethlehem commando who fought in the Battle of Colesberg during the Anglo-Boer War 2, is born in Bloemfontein…
EventBoer negotiators travelled from Vereeniging to Pretoria to present their proposals
… Boer negotiators travelled from Vereeniging to Pretoria to … the Boer republics. This happened towards the end of the Anglo-Boer War II which broke out in…
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… returned to private practice in 1900. Following the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Dr Soga was employed by Carl H Malcomess to …
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
… travelled from the South Wales valleys to fight in the Boer War.) Glynn Griffiths was a photographer, cartoonist, artist, …
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… in Pretoria and Bloemfontein during South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War) by a military notice. The initial aim of the … , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 3, p…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1915
… British suffer a heavy casualty of 50 000 men. 3 October Anglo-French army lands at Salonika, Greece. 19 December … World War I Timeline 1915 …
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… occurred against the backdrop of the ‘6 th Frontier War’ . [4] At this point in time, colonialists were doing all … and had given his approval to their…
EventJan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during South African War, is born
… Greyling Kemp, general during the South African War (the Second Anglo-Boer War), Member of Parliament and SA minister of … [Accessed: 13 May 2011] SAHO ‘The…
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… the British finally recognised the independence of the Boer-populated Transvaal (former province of the South … role [ix] . King Mzilikazi Image source…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… fought as a commando against the British in the Second Boer War (1899–1902). During the war his mother was interned in a British concentration camp . …
EventThe South African War: The lifting of the siege of Mafeking
… as Mafikeng) was an important battle in the South African War (Second Anglo-Boer War). The war began in late 1899; President Kruger … 11 May 2010]|North West…
EventSouth African War: Thousands of Black men and women forced to walk home
… With the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (or South African War) imminent, thousands of Black men … 1899: The Long March Home: a little-known incident…
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
… Dutch Settlement Treks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s Second Anglo-Boer War 1899 - 1902 South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917) …
BiographyMargaret Roach Killie Campbell
… his book, The Washing of the Spears, which deals with the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879. Morris wrote: "I owe the greatest debt of all to …
BiographyNeville Wilson Curtis
… and served in the South African Air Force during World War II. Jack Curtis eventually became a senior manager in the Anglo Vaal group of mining companies. He…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
… Catharina Swart (nee Robberts). During the South African War (1899-1902) Swart's father was captured and the young boy … the concentration camp at Winburg…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… One of the Boer concentration camps. Photographical Collection Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein SA Image source More than a century … as the South African…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… South Africa for the visit of Chamberlain, following the Anglo-Boer War. He was part of the Indian deputation supposed to expose …
EventSA troops invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I
… Britain had fought the Boer settlers in South Africa in the Anglo-Boer wars (1880-1, … Asians served in South African military units during the war,…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the British Government called … of Afrikaner nationalism and a desire to return to the pre-Anglo-Boer War…
EventDundee and Glencoe are retaken by General Sir Redvers Buller troops during the South African War II
… by General Sir Redvers Buller troops as the South African War II 1899-1902 (Anglo-Boer War II 1899-1902) intensified. The area west of Glencoe … History…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… , 16 December 1838, leading to the founding of the first Boer Republic in Natal. The discovery of Gold and Diamonds … their wives and children remained in…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… in his life. Arrested for participation in anti-Vietnam War campus demonstrations, Coetzee had to forfeit US … African countryside of times past to explore…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… A number of interrelated factors led to the South African War. The factors that have been covered in the text below … African War, it may be useful to read…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… gained for their show of patriotism during the First World War. The outbreak of the First World War, coming little more than a decade after the Anglo-Boer…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… local Black preachers, and in the Transvaal, where Boer officials were distinctly hostile to British … Resolutions", Izwe la Kiti , July 2, 1913). When World…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… After the Anglo-Boer War, there were six British colonies in South Africa. They … their freedom and independence back. This was the first Anglo-Boer War. The…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… Labour System Emergence of Classes The South African War 1. Discovery of Gold in the Witwatersrand: During the … caused due to increasing tension between the…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… 19th and early 20th Centuries. After the South African War of 1899-1902 (also known as the Anglo-Boer War, or Boer War), the British began focussing their …
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… fourth and last son was born in Natal. In 1899 the Second Anglo-Boer (South African War) war broke out. Though Gandhi’s sympathies were with the …