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Rebecca Lan
Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in South Africa in…
BiographyJohn Collins
John L Collins was born on the 23 March 1905 in Hawkhurst in Kent, England. He was the youngest child on the four children born to Arthur Collins, a master…
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… Urban Housing League. His father, Hendrik, had joined the Boer forces in Natal as a 13-year old farm boy. He survived, … see a close friend, Julian Ogilvie…
BiographyGünther Komnick
Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental…
BiographyMarthinus Wessel Pretorius
… 1819, near Graaff-Reinet in the then Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the Great Trek leader … Boer statesman and soldier …
Thomas G. Karis
Obituary by his son, Aleck Karis. Thomas G. Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading…
BiographyFreda Levson
Freda Levson was born on 21 November 1911 in Pretoria, South Africa. Her father was a prominent physician in Johannesburg. She was educated in England from the…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… could not see beyond British Imperialism. During the Anglo-Boer War they all threw their support behind Britain. …
BiographyShadrack Fuba Zibi
Chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, was the son of Fuba III and the grandson of Zibi II. He was educated at Love dale…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Boer-British War Volume I by by Halstead and Hopkins
… South Africa and the Boer-British War Volume I by by Halstead and Hopkins …
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
George Bizos was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the young Bizos…
Encyclopedia of the Boer War by Martin F. Marix Evans
… Encyclopedia of the Boer War … Encyclopedia of the Boer War by Martin F. Marix Evans …
BiographyLord Kitchener
… in 1898. In 1900 he became commander in chief of the Boer War, where he fought the guerrillas by burning farms and … Kitchener at the Peace Conference that…
ArchiveAnglo is trying very hard to buy Gold Fields
… Anglo is trying very hard to buy Gold Fields …
Anglo-French dual control of Egypt is re-established.
… Anglo-French dual control of Egypt is re-established. …
WWI: West AfricaCombined Anglo-French forces take Mandera, Cameroon.
… WWI: West AfricaCombined Anglo-French forces take Mandera, Cameroon. …
BiographyKing Mpande kaSenzangakhona
… tried not to alienate either party. In 1854 Mpande granted Boer settlers in Northern KwaZulu Natal a deed of cession for … in 1861. Cetshwayo’s army camped…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
… on the civil service examinations. On the eve of the Boer War he was sent to Mafeking as an interpreter, and … in South Africa, Before and Since the European…
BiographyChris McGregor
Christopher McGregor was born on 24 December 1936 in Somerset West in the Western Cape. He grew up in Blythswood in the Transkei (now a part of the Eastern…
BiographyDouglas Chadwick Thompson
Douglas Chadwick Thompson was born on 8 August 1905 to David Chadwick Thompson and Kitty Brettle in Manchester, England. In 1907 the family left Manchester and…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire.’ His university career … there would be in them if they were…
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
… Terre'Blanche, fought as a Cape rebel in the Second Boer War . His father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the then … The AWB’s intention was to establish a…
EventBoer statesman, soldier and first president of the South African (Transvaal) Republic, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius dies
… Boer statesman, soldier and first president of the South … Boer statesman, soldier and first president of the South …
BiographyRobert Carl-Heinz Shell
Robert Shell was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later changed to Shell)…
BiographyDaniël Francois Malherbe
… was a historical romance set in the time of the Second Anglo-Boer War. Although he adhered to the basic principles of the …
Gen. Christiaan Frederik Beyers, Boer general, is born in Stellenbosch.
… Gen. Christiaan Frederik Beyers, Boer general, is born in Stellenbosch. …
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
Born on 1 November 1935, in Berlin, Germany, Gerhardt joined the South African Navy after his father successfully persuaded naval chief Hugo Biermann to take…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
Harry Schwarz (born Heinz Schwarz) was born in Cologne, Germany (Weimar Republic) on 13 May 1924. Growing up in a Jewish family, Schwarz witnessed the rise of…
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 … South African, with Louis Botha …
BiographyGuy Tillim
Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of South…