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PlaceLegogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
… recorded as 'Lugogodo'. The Mountain was also known to the Boers as 'Logieskop', from Dutch-logies, which means boarding …
PlaceHeilbron, Free State
… Superintendent as Commandos harassed the town, because the Boers were coming so close to the black camp and removing any … and the Matabele tribe in 1836…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… 1852 Sand River Convention signed, granting Transvaal Boers independence. The Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR) is … Telegraphic communication is established…
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… medical skills were sought out by the British colonists, Boers and indigenous people alike! He became known amongst …
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… commemorated the Battle of Blood River where, in 1838, the Boers had defeated King Dingaan's Zulu impis. In preparation, …
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… in 1909 brought some improvement to the position of the Boers in the game of power, but the African populations were … Christian approach, Sol Plaatje has Ra…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… 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…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… the British had made some effort to reconcile with the Boers and ignored the claims of the Africans. A new …
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… took place between 1838 and the 1840s, and involved the Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of …
EventSomerset concludes a treaty with Ngqika (aka Gaika)
… he had been attacked for trying to stop cattle stealing. Boers volunteered, and Ndlambe, who was retreating, abandoned …
Declaration by Oliver Tambo, Deputy President of the African National Congress of South Africa, and J.R.D. Chikerema, Vice-President of the Zimbabwe African People`s Union, 05 August 1967
… courageous battles, fighting their way to strike at the Boers themselves in South Africa. We wish to declare here …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… P, (1984), The Land Belongs to Us: The Pedi Polity, the Boers, and the British in the nineteenth century Transvaal , …
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… from all sides. The Ndebele were trapped between the Boers of the Transvaal republic and the Portuguese of … afraid of being eaten up by either the…
EventLabram, manufacturer of 'Long Cecil' is killed by shell from 'Long Tom'
… of the defendants when Kimberley was under siege by the Boers during Anglo-Boer War 2. He died only a few days before …
PlaceTree Garden, President Brand Street, Bloemfontein
… Free State was, at one time, ruled independently by the Boers) and, as further dignitaries followed suit over the …
PlaceCalvinia
… to defend the Town, against the raiding Boer Commando. The Boers ripped down the Union Jack upon entering the Town and … Calvinia Museum.) Abraham Esau…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… War (1899-1902) , but the British acted to appease the Boers by granting them responsible government before Union …
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… People's Council or Volksraad which made laws for all the Boers. Everyone came under the jurisdiction of the central … Voortrekker-Bantu relations and…
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter’s commando burns Chief Sikhobobo’s kraal at Qulusini
… a Qulusi impi of 300 men attacked a commando of seventy Boers under Field-Cornet Jan Potgieter laagered at Holkrans … intending to surprise them but a…
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter's commando burns Chief Sikhobobo's kraal at Qulusini
… a Qulusi impi of 300 men attacked a commando of seventy Boers under Field-Cornet Jan Potgieter laagered at Holkrans … intending to surprise them but a…
PlaceLimpopo Province
… and fossils. It was also the place where a battle between Boers and the Kgotla was fought in 1854. The Boers won, and they named a Town nearby after their…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… on the spot where General Colley fell. Laigns Nek: Boers under Gen Piet Joubert inflicted the first of three …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… decades there was a struggle between the British and the Boers for dominance. The Boers established several Republics. 1867 marked the … Africans had under…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… British woman from Cornwall, who took up the cause of the Boers. She arrived in early 1901 to travel to the camps in …
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor …
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… extermination of all White people excluding the English, Boers, Namas, Basters, Berg-Damaras and missionaries in the …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… military force which marched into Pretoria in 1877. The Boers pushed the British out again in 1881. By that time the … cause of black rights, as they were…
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… pastoral Afrikaner farmers called Voortrekkers , or Boers , who in the mid-1830's began to probe Northward beyond … to claim all the land between it and the…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… Although the war continued to be fought by the Boers as a guerrilla conflict, moves were made to start a …
PlaceNorthern Cape
… biggest battles of the war happened at Magersfontein . The Boers won the battle with special new fighting techniques, …