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EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… 15 years after the Union of South Africa was formed. The Boer community was still recovering fresh wounds from the defeat by British settlers in the South…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… or "inboekselings". These are mainly labourers in the Boer settlements that spread in the interior of South Africa, particularly in areas that were to become…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… of Cuito Carnavale) | click here The SADF also fought a war in Mocambique and supported Renamo against Somora … no longer beneficial for their profits. Big…
EventMining Magnate Oppenheimer dies
… magnate, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who founded the Anglo American Corporation, died in Johannesburg at the age … controlled the diamond price after the First…
PlaceNational Women’s Monument
… van Wouw , was put up in 1913 in remembrance of the 26 370 Boer women and children who died in prison camps during the South African War . This monument, is…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… of their lives. Gumede was eleven years old when the Anglo-Zulu War erupted. Judged against the background of his involvement … FIGHTING THE WHITE MAN’S WAR:…
Zulu Community
… the land between Durban and the Tugela river to found a Boer Republic in Natal. Shortly afterwards, Dingane had the … disarm and Cetshwayo should forsake his…
EventZulu army defeat British Army at the Isandlwana Mountain
… victory for the Zulu kingdom, led by King Cetshwayo The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 ended on July 4 at the last ritual battle of …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… of Germany, whose forces fought the British during World War 1. This was his father's way of showing opposition to the … was due to the efforts of Gavin…
The Afrikaner Bond
… of the people. Some wanted to see Dutch adopted as the Boer lingua franca, while an opposed group sought to develop … a success for Du Toit. Much of the…
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… General Louis Botha left to rally the remnants of the Boer army. Botha had been persuaded to continue the war by the Free State President Martinus Steyn and…
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… by Marthinus Pretorius , son of Andries Pretorius , (the Boer statesman for whom the City was named after). Then … in 1910; and a City in 1931. During the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… to the 1940s. (6) The trek to the cities combined with the Boer defeat at the hands of the British was what shaped … Afrikaner Nationalism. QUESTION 2: HOW…
PlaceDie Kraal, Brummeria, Pretoria
… Pretoria in 1886 and moved to Holland at the time of the Boer War. He studied there and then returned home to South Africa, …
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…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… are still not allowed to own property in the two former Boer Republics (Transvaal and the Orange Free State), or to … South Africa as part of the British…
A new class struggle
… standing room." According to Spencer Tyron, in the Zulu War of 1879 and in the Boer War, the Whites were capable of mustering a thousand … inhabitants of…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… declared that 16 December must be a public holiday in this Boer Republic. In 1894 the Government of the Free State also … 16 December to be a public holiday…
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… was maintained by a lease throughout the Second World War. At the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, Britain attempted to remove its presence from ……
EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… under Horatio Nelson. After the Ottoman Empire declared war on France in September 1798 and facing an Anglo-Turkish alliance, Napoleon decided the strike…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… central business district. It was loop-holed during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It bore witness to both the South African Wars …
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
… Unfortunately,due to raids made by the British into the Boer Republics to get at the gold and diamonds there was a threat of war hanging over South Africa…
PlaceWaverly Road Memorial, Durban South
… The South African War Memorial was unveiled on May 24, 1910, at 360 University … Avenue, in memory of those who lost their lives in the Boer War . It was…
PlaceConcordia
… reached Concordia on 23 April1889. On 4 April 1902 a Boer force of about 25 men led by Generals J.C. Smuts, … described it as "the most disgraceful affair of…
EventThe use of Dutch is ratified in the Cape parliament
… by the Cape Parliament in 1873. The First and Second Boer Wars reinforced the position of Afrikaans for after the war culminated; a new upsurge emerged to…
PlaceGreater Mapungubwe Heritage Site And Tour.
… a number of very significant incidents during the Anglo-Boer War. …
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… from British-controlled territory. Some 12,000 of these Boer emigrants moving Northward from the Cape crossed the … to the Transvaal when Great Britain…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… which was under British control following the Second Anglo Boer War . This arrangement continued until 1906, when the kingdom …
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Built as a refuge for Dutch-speaking farmers during the Anglo-Zulu War, is also known as the Hermannsburg Laager! It was …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… of the Cape and now administrator of the two former Boer Republics, imposes a number of administrative acts that … in bazaars set up for this purpose. …