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PlaceFouriesburg
… was started soon after the end of the Anglo Boer war in 1902. The stretch from Ficksburg to Fouriesberg on to …
PlaceHalvey Hotel, Bloemfontein
… Victorian and Edwardian style and officially reopened on 01 November 2004, this is Bloemfontein's most prestigious …
Women at the start of the 20th century
… were white women enfranchised. The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 (also called the South African War) had decimated the … of Black people increased to 23.4 per…
EventCecil John Rhodes is buried in the Matopos
… ill on his return to Cape Town in the early months of 1902 and died soon afterwards at his seaside cottage in …
The French Revolution Activity
… do you think this says about how women were seen in the 18 th century? Try to find out when women got voting rights …
PlaceRissik Street Post Office, Johannesburg
… from records that the idea of the clock originated in 1902 when the Government decided that a vote of £3,000 should … clock tower. The clock was first…
PlaceSprings
… dealers, it was not a town yet. The settlement grew and in 1902 a health committee was appointed to look after the … farm Geduld and the further discovery of…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… 10 April, A second expeditionary force consisting of 18 Natal traders, 30 Khoi retainers and some 600 levies, 400 … the town length of the bay. After this…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 4: Transformations in southern Africa after 1750
Southern Africa experienced transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries. This was the period that became known as the ‘mfecane’. This topic includes research…
Julian Goldswain
… Fuji Professional Awards. 2008 - Selected with 18 top S.A. photographers for Masterclass by internationally …
PlaceConcordia
… Brakpits reached Concordia on 23 April1889. On 4 April 1902 a Boer force of about 25 men led by Generals J.C. Smuts, …
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… that would rule all of Africa. Rhodes died on 26 March 1902. …
EventHunting is prohibited in the area that is now the Kruger National Park
… This task was given to Major James Stevenson-Hamilton in 1902, in order to protect the animals against hunters, ivory …
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… of the Transvaal army in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) from March 1900, and he was one of the architects of …
PlacePublic Library, Port Elizabeth
… Twickenham. The Library was officially opened on 29 July 1902. It was built in the late Victorian style incorporating …
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… Ball. Pretorius, F. (1985). The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, Cape Town: Don Nelson. … African History,This day in history: 18 May, 1902,18 May -Boer War :…
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… advising and aiding in the extermination of malaria. In 1902 he received the Nobel Prize in medicine for his … Prize, The Nobel prize in physiology or…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… grandson Mandla as chief of the Mvezo Traditional Council 18 July, On his 89th birthday, Mandela forms ‘The Elders’. … the 6th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… because of the Anglo-Boer War, but is re-established in 1902. 1890 March, The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and … among tobacco workers in Cape Town and…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… laws relating to political prisoners and detention. By 18 October, the Cabinet had decided to rack down on the most … day, on 19 October, the government went…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… 7 April 1960, banning the ANC and the PAC. By 6 May 1960, 18,000 persons were detained since the proclamation of the … and sentenced to long goal terms. The…
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… towards Afrikaners during the South African War (1899-1902) [xi] . War sentiments often prevail long after the …
The War
… war that kept nearly 500 000 British troops occupied until 1902. The Boers were conquered in the end, but a great deal …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… 1902 At the cessation of hostilities, Sir Alfred Milner , the …
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… such as M. Alexander, Buirski, Herman and Bender. 18 Several historians have described the extreme poverty … because of the Anglo-Boer war, it was…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… to have a change of mind and help him (Seme) on his course.18 Help indeed came albeit for the following year. Mrs Eliza … decade later, in the African…
PlaceOld Government Building, Church Street, Boksburg
… was completed on or before 10 April 1891. From 1902 to 1958 the building housed the local magistrate and his …
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… defeat by British settlers in the South African War 1899-1902. Discussions about a new flag were taking place …
PlaceGreen Lodge, 81 St George Street, Bloemfontein
… altered to its present form with Cape Dutch features in 1902, and was declared a National Monument under old NMC …
Mandela: Message to India
… South African History Online Mandela: Message to India 18 June 1994 [ On the occasion of an India-South Africa … never be broken. Source: Mainstream , New…