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PlaceBurgersdorp, E.C.
… Week '. In the Battle of Stormberg, a Commando of 400 Boers fought a much larger British force and subsequently …
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… to be in by 7.30pm. There was a curfew as we had seen the "boers" in Maseru. It was dangerous on the streets after … an explosion lit up the yard. The…
The National Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein is celebrating its 100-year existence this year
Programme Friday, 18 October 2013 17:00 – Opening of festival market and entertainment Saturday, 19 October 2013 08:00 – Zumba Dance Exercise Group Market…
PlaceDelgoa Bay Now Known as Maputo Bay, Mozambique
… was contested by the Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Boers until by arbitration (1875) it was awarded to Portugal. …
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
… greater oppression under the British regime than under the Boers. As Sir Henry Cotton had put it, while the Boer … Transvaal is still a Crown Colony. When it…
PlacePrieska
Prieska is a very small Town that is perched along the Orange River in the Northern Cape. It is 240 kilometres south of Kimberley and its famous Big Hole…
PlaceHarrismith, Free State
The town of Harrismith is situated in the Thabo Mofutsanyana region of the Free State Province, South Africa. Harrismith is a small, charming country Town…
PlaceLaingsburg, Karoo
A small, modern Karoo Village, Laingsburg lies at the confluence of two rivers, but is one of the driest parts of the Country. Laingsburg is 280 km from Cape…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa encountered eastward-moving White pioneers or ‘ Trek Boers’ in the region of the Fish River (see Eastern Frontier …
PlaceDullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
… 99, donned his Bandelier before leaving to fight with the Boers. After the war, TNH Janson (Oom Teun) was one of the …
Community histories of Rustenburg
… he completed by 1896. Kroondal’s residents sided with the Boers during the South African War, joining the Rustenburg …
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
King Sarhili was the last King to rule over Xhosaland before it was fragmented by the consequences of the ‘Cattle Killing Movement’ of 1856-7. The movement was…
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
Jan Hendrik Steyn was born in Cape Town, Western Cape on 4 March 1928. His mother, Zerilda Steyn, was a pioneer of social welfare in South Africa, founding the…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
Introduction The migrant labour system marks a period in which African men were integrated into wage labour. Black men changed from being farmers in their…
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA's involvement in WW2
About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, wife of former President M.T. Steyn, marched to the Union Buildings to protest about the South African…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 November, Martin Plaut, journalist and senior research fellow at the…
EventWomen's Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein
The Women's Memorial was unveiled in Bloemfontein, on the same day as the celebration of Dingaan's Day upon which the Voortrekker victory over the Zulu at…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… The Pedi chiefdom, under Sekhukhune, defeated the Boers in 1876 and expelled them from the northern areas …
Control: 1910 - 1948
… 'imported' from Britain and Australia, and displaced Boers from the farms and the Anglo-Boer war. Another source …
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
… there was a threat of war hanging over South Africa. The Boers were not prepared to take the raids lying down so both …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defender of the Hottentots”
… there is a conflict between the British, and the Dutch (Boers), i.e.. between a backward feudal economy and a … Buxton. His main attack was on the slave…
Chapter 3
… is presented as a triumph of the reactionary Boers over the liberal Cape. But nothing could be more false … own defence against the recently conquered enemy,…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart was born on 5 December 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… could not be licked indefinitely. If the British and the Boers, despite the bitterness of a hard-fought war, could … a means of struggle. Only ten or so…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… we remain in a state of servitude, as we were under the Boers, or claim our ordinary rights as British subjects?” We … was mindful of not embittering…
PlaceKranskop, KZN
The rather little Village of Kranskop lies just 36km North East of Greytown in the Midlands of KwaZulu Natal. In Afrikaans a 'kop' means a 'Peak' and because…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the British Government called upon the dominions in the British Empire to come to its assistance. The South…
PlaceKlerksdorp- Matlosana Local Municipality
The City in Matlosana Local Municipality; (previously the City Council of Klerksdorp) is a Category B Municipality situated within the Dr Kenneth Kaunda…
PlacePilgrims Rest, Graskop- Mpumalanga Province
Once a booming gold rush town in the 1870s, Pilgrim’s Rest remains frozen in time. The entire town is a national monument, with original corrugated iron…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… conquest. While the Xhosa was being expropriated, the Boers, abetted by British settlers from Natal, tragically … to the Boer Transvaal, and was not repealed…