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ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… Afrikaner interests still bitter about the outcome of the Anglo Boer War of the previous decade, and what was perceived as British …
EventThe South African War field doctor, Arthur Conan Doyle is born
… of Sherlock Holmes and field doctor in the South African War of 1899-1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, was born at Picardy … in Hampshire until 1891. During the…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… Mzilikazi – an apparent threat that the Boers would wage war if their requirements were not met. At the meeting, on … an exaggerated kind, in which the hero…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… they drafted two Baphalane regiments in support of the Boer campaign against Sekhukhune in the northern Transvaal … in 1894, they drafted three Bakgatla…
EventCanada offers a second contingent of troops to the British in the South African War
… artillery to bolster British troops in the South African War. The British initially declined Canada's offer believing … [Accessed 21 October 2010] Anon, The…
BiographyRick Turner
… earlier been to South Africa when he fought in the Second Anglo-Boer War . Rick grew up in Stellenbosch, Western Province on a …
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… found themselves in the period after the First World War. With the end of the war, the boom conditions for South … economic and social conditions in the…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… V is defaced for the second time. 2 April, The Uitenhage War Memorial which is a statue of a soldier mounted on a … Library gardens in Polokwane. 20 April, A…
EventThe battle of Donkerhoek (Diamond Hill) marks the continuation of the South African War
… On 11 June, 1900, Boer commandos and British forces clashed at Donkerhoek (Diamond Hill) during the South African War. The battle came after General Lord…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… (16 December 1838), leading to the founding of the first Boer Republic in Natal. The Anglo-Boer War The Voortrekkers in Natal moved northeast after they were…
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… 5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war were exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops … and Britain and France came on the same day when the Anglo-French…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… trader moves to Pretoria , the capital of the fledgling Boer Republic, in the late 1870s. 1886 The discovery of … valid. 1899 October 11, The outbreak of the…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… they outstripped the productive capacity of most of the Boer farmers. In the words of Mr Hemming: "...It is an … labour from the land. Finally, after the…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… however was short-lived, and by 1902 at the end of the Anglo-Boer or South African War, the Afrikaners had once again lost their republics and …
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… the depressed family. Father Jerome O’Hea (the village’s Anglo-Irish headmaster) became Robert’s surrogate father and … of 1961, Mugabe publicly discussed…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… Makhanda, but in 1827 conducted thorough research on the war-doctor and produced it in ‘New Monthly Magazine’ and … historians attribute to the employment of…
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… came into service in 1903. In 1914, during the First World War, she was commissioned as an auxiliary cruiser in the 10th … Castle to take command of British…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… and economic rights of Coloureds. However, after the Anglo-Boer War/South African War when the possibility of a white …
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… The Anglo-Boer War broke out in 1899 and was the result of the British … died in concentration camps during the course of the Anglo-Boer War. The Treaty of…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… cosmopolitan character before the South African War (Anglo-Boer War) can be ascribed to the various …
EventGen. De la Rey captures Lord Methuen
… Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Jacobus "Koos" De la Rey defeated and captured … Western Transvaal in the last important battle won by the Boer forces. A wounded…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ dynamited
… During the Anglo-Boer War II, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the state … from the advancing enemy. Source: Cloete, P.G. (2000), The Anglo-Boer War…
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… amended to Bethulie. The Village was occupied by Boer forces on 16 October 1899 during the Second Anglo Boer War . Today the Bridge is named the Hennie Steyn…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
… During the Second Anglo-Boer War, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the state … advancing enemy. The Cruesot is synonymous with the Second Anglo-Boer…
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
… refused British instructions to take up arms against the Boer republics during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Col. H.B. Bottomley of the Imperial White Horse…
EventGeneral Koos de la Rey, buried in Lichtenburg amid a very tense atmosphere.
… Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey, known as Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during the Second Anglo-Boer War who is widely regarded as being one of the strongest ……
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… we are familiar with today has its origin after the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902. Prior to the war each colony or Boer republic …
Colonial history of Polokwane
… the Zoutpansberg, north of Pietersburg. Two groups under Boer leaders Hans van Rensburg and Louis Trichardt first … a problem for both the Boers and the…
EventDinuzulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against Boers
… to follow British instructions to take up arms against the Boer Republics during the South African War (Second Anglo Boer War). His reasons were that the war…
PlaceElizabeth le Roux Hostel, Bloemfontein
… the Elizabeth le Roux Hostel was laid in 1899. During the Anglo-Boer War the building was used as a hospital and in 1906 it was …