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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 …
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…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
Starting with major scientific breakthroughs during the 1930’s, countries have developed weapons that are based on nuclear energy. The use of nuclear weapons…
ArticleThe Causes of World War I
In the years immediately preceding the First World War all the European countries were facing increased political dissent from the growing working class. The…
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…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
The Cold War was the period of conflict and competition between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. From…
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…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
Dr Frene Noshir Ginwala was born on 25 April 1932 in Johannesburg in what was then the Province of the Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Her politics would be…
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…
Grade 9 Archive
This archive features classroom material that is no longer required in the curriculum. Human rights issues during and after World War II: When reading about…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… (as we know it today) before 1910. Britain had defeated Boer Republics in the South African War which date from …
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…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… - Pretoria Central On 3 March 1873, the Volksraad (the Boer Republic parliament) approved the decision to build a … escaping. [2] The third prison - Pretoria…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… her husband has become in South Africa. 1899 October, The Anglo-Boer War is declared. December, The Natal government reverses … for Chamberlain’s visit,…
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…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… which was under British control following the Second Anglo Boer War . This arrangement continued until 1906, when the …
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…