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EventNatal Football Union founded
… The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the subsequent war with the South African Republics brought a new influx of …
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… district of Vryheid, a Zulu Chief, Sikobobo, attacked a Boer regiment after the latter had stolen their cattle, … a British raiding force under Col…
PlaceRooihuiskraal Battlefield, Pretoria
… took place, on 12 February 1881 during the First War of Independence (1880-81). During the war, Pretoria was besieged by Boer forces for a period of 100 days…
PlaceNewcastle
… Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War , Newcastle today is the largest town in northern KwaZulu … Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War, Newcastle today is…
EventDe La Rey is persuaded not to speak to the Burghers
… On 12 August 1913, Koos De La Rey, a South African War II General, was ordered to meet with Generals Jan C … of South Africa, which was formed after the…
EventThe Battle of Kambula takes place
… On 29 March 1879, the Anglo-Zulu War Battle of Kambula took place. The battle involved the …
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899 to 1902. The women, Florence Phillips (1863-1940) … her exposure of conditions in the…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… 1900-1910 Gumede’s hopes that the British victory in the Anglo-Boer war would result in the removal of the oppressive features of …
EventZulu King Cetshwayo Dies
… army should disarm. When Cetshwayo rejected the ultimatum, war broke out. The Zulus won the battle of Isandlwana but … poisoning rumored at the time. For…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… matters of art and of politics just after the end of the Anglo Boer War drew spontaneous cries of "hear, hear" and generated much …
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… the Xhosas; the Zulus; and my people, the Afrikaners. The Anglo-Boer War was by far the biggest of the 50 or so wars that Britain …
EventKgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo) dies
… Transvaal (now Limpopo) who led his followers in the Boer-Gagananwa war of 1894, dies in Bochum-Blouberg, Northern Transvaal. …
1. The Way to Fox Street
… Moshoeshoe's kingdom during the Basotho-Orange Free State war of 1865, when its leaders signed a separate peace treaty … farmers were so strong that when…
EventBritain proclaims Natal a British colonial territory
… the power of the volksraad finally came to an end. In the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 the British defeated the Zulus under the command … South African History…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… and elsewhere in the penultimate year of the First World War. This was the first time aircraft, only a recent … military historian Max Hastings as a …
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… those who are less fortunate in their means. But, as the Anglo-Boer war has brought into the country a large number of European …
The National Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein is celebrating its 100-year existence this year
… Book stalls, Boere-orkes marathon 09:00 – Tug-of-war competition kick-off 10:00 – 10:30 - Boer War re-enactment at the fort 13:00 – Launch of Ideas 100 and …
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
… . Is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War . Years later in 1847, an Irishman named; Jim Rorke, … Buildings at Rorke’s Drift were…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… this occupied landscape was drawn into the orbit of the Boer republics, the mineral revolution and the imperial … met the line to the sea. Nelspruit and the…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… and France had beenin a dispute since the Hundred Year’s War. These countries became involved in a race to acquire … time. European troops entering Kumane…
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as ‘Long Cecil’ is test fired for the first time
… Cecil John Rhodes, was test fired for the first time at Boer forces during the Siege of Kimberley. Rhodes, who had … only such guns as had been officially…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… of the Transvaal. Before 1886 it was a poor, struggling Boer republic but ten years later, it was the richest gold … of internal conflicts within African…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… 1886 and 1888. Edmund Bourke became a burger of the Boer Republic and was a personal friend of President Kruger. Thus the outbreak of the second war of…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… and boys so they can go and work in the mines. After the Anglo-Boer war in the first ten years of the 21st century, there was a …
Bernard Shaw and May Morris
… of private ownership will be the result of a civil war, means the opposite of any libertarian purpose. The war … about the purpose for it. I was a combatant…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
… of Satyagraha. The first happened during the South African War, otherwise referred to as the Anglo-Boer War. During this War, Gandhi and other leaders of the…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… who came to South Africa when the Transvaal was still a Boer republic, and stayed during the Anglo Boer War and beyond. In several newspapers, he denounced…
EventThe Battle of Gingindlovu
… The Anglo-Zulu War Battle of Gingindlovu took place on 2 February 1879. It …
PlaceBlockhouse in Hekpoort, Krugersdorp
… The Building was erected during the South African Boer War by the British Military, under the guidance of …
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
… Church. The English Fort and Armoury: Remnants of the Anglo-Boer War (ABW), 1899-1902, if you are interested in ABW history …