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BiographyNeville Wilson Curtis
… II. Jack Curtis eventually became a senior manager in the Anglo Vaal group of mining companies. He engaged actively in …
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… was the president of the Orange Free State , one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers left the Cape Colony in … ideologically neutral, especially…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
… to all Blacks, whether in the British colonies or the Boer Republics. Peregrino, who served as secretary of both …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… the ways in which the politics and culture of the Boer Republics clashed with the modernising thrust of the … resources, for advantage and for wealth. Even…
BiographyJoão Albasini
… postal service between the Delagoa Bay Portuguese and the Boer Republic. In 1859 the Transvaal Republic government …
BiographyWilliam Henry Beaumont
… Governor's office and the Executive Council. During the Anglo-Zulu War Beaumont served as District Commandant of the …
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… the South African War of 1899-1902 (also known as the Anglo-Boer War, or Boer War), the British began focussing their … the Treaty of Vereeniging , which had…
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 …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… caused due to increasing tension between the independent Boer States (the Transvaal and the Orange Free State) and the … in Potchefstroom – leading to the…
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
… May 1915. He was named after Christiaan Frederik Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his father, Jozua Naudé. Naudé …
BiographyRick Turner
… earlier been to South Africa when he fought in the Second Anglo-Boer War . Rick grew up in Stellenbosch, Western Province on …
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… had been an argument between the Boers and the Zulus about Boer occupation of Zulu territory; but in 1861, the Boers had … the British government began…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… had been an argument between the Boers and the Zulus about Boer occupation of Zulu territory; but in 1861, the Boers had … the British government began…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… an exaggerated kind, in which the hero was the Afrikaner Boer. He was pictured, first of all, trying to build a … Transvaal. In 1881, after the Boer victory…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… South Africa for the visit of Chamberlain, following the Anglo-Boer War. He was part of the Indian deputation supposed to … Indian community feared that anti…
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 … The issue of land and labour had to be…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… African countryside of times past to explore the perpetual Boer-English, white-black conflicts. Its sequel, Youth, has …
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 … the two Boer…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… known as “the great Southwest African Diamond Case.” The Anglo-American Corporation, of which Sir Ernest Oppenheimer …
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 … policy and resulted in the destruction of over 30 000 Boer farm houses. Boer women…
EventGen. De la Rey captures Lord Methuen
… Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Jacobus "Koos" De la Rey defeated and … Western Transvaal in the last important battle won by the Boer forces. A wounded Methuen and…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… trader moves to Pretoria , the capital of the fledgling Boer Republic, in the late 1870s. 1886 The discovery of … and work seekers from Southern Africa…
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 … Click…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… Library gardens in Polokwane. 20 April, A statue of the Anglo Boer War (South African War) in front of the East London City … Available at [Accessed 21 April…
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 … had been…
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ dynamited
… During the Anglo-Boer War II, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the … 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…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… cosmopolitan character before the South African War (Anglo-Boer War) can be ascribed to the various population groups, … other businesses in Bloemfontein in…
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… economic and social conditions in the cities. Both the Anglo-Boer War and the First World War had forever transformed …
EventCape Colony Prime Minister opposes War
… prime minister in the Cape Colony at the start of Anglo-Boer War 2 (South African War), summarised the pssure his … and Parliamentarian. References: Cloete,…