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Anglo-Boer War 2: The first shots of the war are fired at Kraaipan, about 50 kilometres south of Mafeking, where Gen. De la Rey
Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. M.T. Steyn, too weak to leave his tent, resigns because of poor health and Gen. C.R. de Wet is appointe
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Modder River or Tweerivieren takes place, in which both Gen. Methuen and Gen. De la Rey are wou
Anglo-Boer War 1: The first shots in this war are fired in Potchefstroom. The war ended with the defeat of the British in the b
Richard Victor Selope Thema
Richard Victor Selope Thema was born in Ga-Mamabolo, Pietersburg district, in 1886. Both his parents were Pedi speaking but not originally belonging to the…
PlaceFort Klapperkop
… engineer, a building contractor and one woman. The Boers received financial assistance from the German Bank in … incorporated. One was built close to Fort…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… area - led by Sir Walter Currie. Together with 400 mounted Boers and Basters, 100 Xhosa and 200 regulars, Currie was … the Basters near Upington to form a…
PlaceFree State Province
… which means Mountain of the Night in Sotho. In 1853 the Boers (as the Voortrekkers who had settled in the new … Basotho War came to an end. As a measure to…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… came at a huge cost. In return for their assistance, the Boers were promised vast tracts of territory on Zululand's … retain control of his portion of…
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of De Wetsdorp, which was to end on the 23rd with the surrender of the British to Chief Commandant
EventVoortrekker leader Andries Pretorius dies
… Former Commander-General of the Boers in Natal and later Republican statesman, Andries …
EventThe last conventional battle of the South African War ends
… ended six days after it broke out on 21 August when the Boers retreated. The climax of this battle came on the last …
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… embarked on a policy of expansion in Southern Africa. The Boers were forcefully removed from the Cape Colony by the … and collaboration between oppressor…
EventGert Maritz (41), Voortrekker leader, dies.
… in 1835 when over a three year period more then 12,000 Boers (farmers) left the Cape Colony. They trekked (moved) …
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… white South African population that came to be known as Boers or Afrikaners. It soon became apparent that if the free … South Africa’s interior It soon…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… communities and between the African communities and the Boers, the English colonies, the missionaries, traders and … shared with the trekboers. In 1809 the…
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
… on 21 March 1960; the rivalry between the British and the Boers and the First World War; and with the Second World War …
EventLord Roberts crosses the Vaal River en route to Pretoria
… he encountered some opposition. Two days later the Boers made an effort to stop the advance south of …
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… barbarous war launched by British imperialism against the Boers in 1899, and had become intimate friends. They were … distressed when peace led to an…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
… in South Africa after the discovery of diamonds. The Boers, too, were seeking more land and more labourers to work … 'We will fight' 4. Disaster strikes 9…
EventDick King returns home after securing help for Port Natal
… of Captain T.C. Smith whose garrison was besieged by the Boers near Congella. King completed the journey, normally …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… the African kingdoms was another method used by both the Boers and the British. Once the African kingdoms had been … seek work in the towns. Control over…
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… With the city becoming the capital, it marked the end to Boers’ settlement movements of the Great Trek. Pretoria …
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical Boers who split away from the SAP under the leadership of … Party (NP) was formed when a group of…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical Boers who split away from the SAP under the leadership of … Party (NP) was formed when a group of…
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… and the English-speaking White population. Whereas the Boers welcomed the Jews onto their farms, relations between …
PlaceVrede
… Reformed Church features a Burghers Memorial to fallen Boers and a Garden to honour the British soldiers. The Great …
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… The writings of Noble and of Wilmot and Chase portrayed Boers settlers outside the Cape Colony as ignorant, … began to be countered by an apologist approach…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa encountered eastward-moving White pioneers or ‘Trek Boers’ in the region of the Fish River (near Grahamstown, …