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The Struggle Over Land, The Basotho lose out
… Century. The people involved in this were the Basotho, the Boers and the British. Of these, the British, who had taken … the closing of this frontier: they…
ArticleThe Aftermath of the war
… Anglo-Boer War resulted in heavy loss of life for both the Boers and the British. The Boers had lost the war and peace negotiations begun in March … Milner…
BiographyThomas Benjamin Davis
Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis, the son of Thomas Leipold, a fisherman, and Jemima Davis was born in April 1867 in Jersey, Channel Islands, a British Crown…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
Glynn Griffiths was born on 20th March 1950 and grew up in the tough diamond mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South Africa,though he was a…
EventHeroic act by boer soldier Windvogel
During the South African War (Anglo-Boer War 2), General Kemp attacked Brigadier-General Dixon at Vlakfontein and captured the field guns. Dixon launched a…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… of the London Missionary Society, he reported that the Boers had been welcomed by the Bechuana and Mzilikazi , who … Paul Kruger , in his memoirs, describes…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
The Early Years Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in the small hamlet of Bishops Stortford, England. He was the fifth son of Francis William Rhodes…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… war. Although there was an unwritten agreement between the Boers and the British that Blacks would not be armed in the … groups in South Africa believed that…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… capitalist growth. Expansion from the Cape, the Trek Boers and the Great Trek The Great Trek. By the beginning of … were expanding their territory northeast…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… after himself. The Venda under Magato challenged the Boers’ over grazing and hunting territory and Paul Kruger and … The British annexed the Transvaal in…
BiographyJoão Albasini
João Albasini was born in Lisbon, Portugal on 1 June 1813. Beside the fact that his father was a sea captain, little is known about young Albasini’s youth. In…
BiographyNadirshah Ardeshir Cama
Nadirshah Ardeshir Cama was born in Bombay in 1870. After passing the Intermediate Examination at the University of Bombay, he worked in the Bombay Port Trust…
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer forces invade the Cape Colony.
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… South Africa in 1910 Transvaal When the Dutch or Afrikaner Boers left the Cape with the Great Trek, they moved north. … In 1877 the British took control of…
ArticleNdebele
… death of Chief Magodongo. From the 1840s, white farmers (Boers), who had been migrating to the Highveld in growing … region. In the autumn of 1883, war broke…
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… progress. By maintaining diplomatic ties with the Boers, the Swazi, and the Zulu, Sekwati established peace and … Potgieter led a commando out against Chief…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… to negotiate with Dingaan to secure a territory for the Boers to settle on. The wily Dingaan met with him and set as … Meanwhile Dingaan had received reports…
BiographySir Ernest Oppenheimer
Ernest Oppenheimer was born on 22 May 1880 in Friedberg, Germany. He was the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant. Oppenheimer began his working life at…
Pieter Arnoldus Cronjé, Boer general during Anglo-Boer War 2, dies in Potchefstroom.
EventEfforts to End the Anglo Boer War fail
Lord Kitchener meets with General Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacceptable. The battle of…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… on their path northwards, but Mzilikazi retaliates and the Boers retreat to their main laager at Vegkop. 1837 January: The Boers attack Mzilikazi’s…
ArchiveNational Conference on the role of Blacks in the Anglo-Boer South African War - 1899 - 1902, 29 - 31 August 2000, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… dictated by England proper. A further concern was that the Boers were chiefly agriculturalists, with little or no skill … by their reasoning, was repayment…
Andries Jacobus Bester, Boer commandant, is born in Bloemfontein
Andries Jacobus Bester, Boer commandant of the Bethlehem commando who fought in the Battle of Colesberg during the Anglo-Boer War 2, is born in Bloemfontein.
ArchiveBouers van n beter nuwe Suid-Afrika
Election poster. White background with blue lettering. Two strips of zig zag lines in blue green yellow and white top and bottom. Nationale Party flag and…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… seizure of the territory, many of the Dutch settlers (the boers) trekked north, to avoid living under British rule. The … the conflicts between the Dutch and…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
In the final stages of the South African War (Anglo Boer), the British had whittled down the Boer resistance to such an extent that the only resistance they…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… to found Lydenburg in 1947, which became a centre for the Boers. 1840s Boleu establishes Thaba Ntsho (Black Mountain), … capital built on a hill near today’s…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in Worcester, a…
Event30 000 Blacks fight for Britain in Anglo-Boer War
David Lloyd George stated in the British House of Commons that as many as 30 000 armed Blacks were at that stage employed in the British army during the Second…