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ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… British Goliath. The treks to the cities, coupled with the Boers’ defeat at the hands of the British were the two forces … with the mineral revolution,…
PlaceKokstad
… - a hardy group of frontiersmen who, after clashing with Boers and the British in the interior, turned east and …
PlaceMelmoth, Gateway to Zululand
Melmoth, known as the gateway to the Zulu Highlands, is a picturesque, little Town just 200 km North East of Durban and 90 km from the Coastal Town of Mtunzini…
PlaceHalvey Hotel, Bloemfontein
This was intended to be a Boarding House for the late-night Theatre Attendees in 1893. However this Building is now a Four Star Heritage Hotel. (The innuendo…
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
At the start of the 20th century South Africa faced a poor white epidemic. The state justified Apartheid as an "anti-poverty program for whites".[1] This poor…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… not yet seen?” But the leaders of the white minority – the Boers and the Britons – had a different vision. They wished …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… Raad. A centenary celebration of the victory of the Boers over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River took place … 1938 was marked as the centenary of the…
PlaceSenekal
… Senekal, and the Burger Monument in memory of the fallen Boers of Senekal during the South African War , as other …
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… Despite their defeats in battles with the Boers and the British during the nineteenth Century, the …
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
The period preceding the formation of the South Africa Union witnessed the establishment and growth of trade unionism which continued even after formation…
PlaceVereeniging, a City in Gauteng
Vereeniging is a City, in Gauteng Province of South Africa. It has a population of more than 350,000 people. It is located on the banks of the Northern loop of…
PlaceVan Reenen's Pass, KwaZulu Natal
Named after the little Town of Van Reenen, which seems to stand guard at the top of this majestic Pass which winds its way through the Drakensberg Mountains…
PlacePotchefstroom
The name comes from the word: 'Potscherf'- (meaning broken pot). This was due to the cracks that appear in the soil of the Mooi River Valley during a drought…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… our future, mowed down by bullets from the guns of the Boers”. Born Baleka Mbete in 1949, she married fellow poet …
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… South African Past , pp. 19-20. G.M. Theal History of the Boers in South Africa (2nd ed. London 1888), p. 357, and … impulse to master explain the attitudes…
PlaceKroonstad
… leader and a preacher. With Andries Pretorius , he led the Boers to a huge victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood …
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… his people against attacks from the Ndebele, Griqua, Boers, and later British forces. Unlike many other leaders of … went, they had all fled in the face of…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… paper on which the two white races, the British and the Boers, had signed the 1910 Act of Union. In other words, the … building, with its two domes …
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being…
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
Q: How did we get a place called Grahamstown? A: Before there was a town, the place was called Egume by the local people. Then the British came and named it…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre 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…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… that had become involved in an anti-colonial struggle, The Boers took on the might of the British Empire in the …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… and sheep to the Dutch and their Khoikhoi allies. The boers then settled on their land. Wheat and grapes for wine … expanding colony or else they could…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter IV - Divide and Rule
… were granted farms and according to Stockenstrom, “some Boers had already been encouraged to squat up to the source …
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South African state, held in accordance with the provisions of the Union of…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
During the war agricultural production in South Africa received a major stimulus as a result of increased demand inside the country and a growing export market…
PlaceValley of a Thousand Hills
… homeland of powerful Zulu tribes and villages. When the Boers and the British were vying for territory, though, there …
Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions
… in the celebrations, but all together with us as Boers-the factory girl with the professor's wife. You and …
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
Middelburg is a modern Town situated in the Cultural Heartland of the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa. Middelburg serves as the Agricultural, Industrial…