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BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… African countryside of times past to explore the perpetual Boer-English, white-black conflicts. Its sequel, Youth, has …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
Pre-1804 Khoisan hunter gatherers are the first inhabitants of the region, before Sotho-Tswana peoples colonized the general region between the third and…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… which was under British control following the Second Anglo Boer War . This arrangement continued until 1906, when the …
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…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
The Kingdom of Kongo was a large kingdom in the western part of central Africa. The name comes from the fact that the founders of the kingdom were KiKongo…
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…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
Early YearsNomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela was born, the fifth of nine children, in the village of Mbongweni, Bizana, in the Transkei on 26 September 1936…
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 …
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 … Britain had conquered the two Boer…
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,…
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…
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 … Kruger, introduction of Chinese…
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 … the Elizabeth le Roux Hostel…
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to South Africa, … Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball…
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…
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 … as the South African War…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… has been involved in through the centuries including the Anglo-Boer Wars, the Anglo-Zulu War, World War I and II, the conflict in South …
EventBritish reinforcements arrive at Ladysmith
… at Ladysmith after a siege of 4 months, during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Ladysmith was not the only town to be under Boer siege. Towns like…
EventSiege of Kimberley is raised
… During the Second Anglo-Boer War between the two Boer republics and Britain, Gen. French relieved Kimberley … Trolley Scan," The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 "…
EventLabram, manufacturer of ‘Long Cecil’ is killed by shell from ‘Long Tom’
… Beers' workshop in Kimberley, was killed by a shell from a Boer 'Long Tom' cannon during the siege of Kimberley. Labram, … shafting. Within twenty-four days…
PlaceStaats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria
… a time it was used to House Prisoners-of-War, during the Anglo-Boer War . Single-storied red brick with ochre dressings. … famous artist J.H. Pierneef…