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EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… General Christiaan Rudolph de Wet was a Boer soldier and statesman, regarded by Afrikaner … chief of the Orange Free State forces in the South African War …
EventDinizulu succeeds his father, Cetshwayo, as King of the Zulus.
… chiefdom who opposed his supporters. This led to a civil war. Dinizulu’s relatives from the Zulu Royal House put him under the protection of their Boer…
EventThe British successfully thwart the Zulu attack at Rorke’s Drift
… During the Anglo-Zulu war Lord Chelmsford, commander of the British forces, took …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… The AWB’s intention was to establish a homeland for the Boer ‘volk’ (people). The AWB functioned as a semi-secret … and threatened then President F.W. de…
PlacePosthuys
… residence, until it was restored with funds from the Anglo American Corporation. Evidence exists that the site … that in 1662 when, due to the imminent…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… times of tumultuous change in South Africa, including the Anglo Boer War and the creation of the Union of South Africa. He …
Control: 1910 - 1948
… and Australia, and displaced Boers from the farms and the Anglo-Boer war. Another source of labour was indentured labour from …
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… comedians. In 1896, he came to South Africa, during the Boer War, where he met with Rudyard Kipling, the English novelist … he visited a place called Vigo…
PlaceThe Fountain and Garden of Remembrance, Chatswood-Sydney. Willoughby Park Centre
… in the service of the Empire, during the South African Boer War of 1899-1901.’ The marble Memorial is located in the … in the “Service of the Empire” during…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… Political party in South Africa has called for a statue of Boer leader Paul Kruger to be pulled down and replaced by one … speech for singing anti-White…
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
… first British occupation was noteworthy for a merciless war against Ndlambe, with the assistance of the missionaries. … of brutal aggression, robbery and…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… Men rent beds, not houses, in the Golden City.' After the Anglo-Boer War established that Britain was to control the economy and …
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… via officers mess of General French’s staff in the Anglo Boer War, back to family Home, through several changes in …
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… Schweizer-Reneke, is where we ended and the third Boer War, another South African war, will start here again. The … Boers and this had resulted in the…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… will be mainly concerned with the question of whether Boer or Briton shall get possession of the reins of … in South Africa, and it will be seen how far the…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… about 30,000 indentured workers in Natal, and before the Anglo-Boer War a few thousand had moved to the Transvaal. Indentured …
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… by D'Urban were rescinded. Following the frontier war from 1846 to 1848 the colonial boundary of the Cape was … the tribal divisions existing in the region…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… the Transvaal for Natal, the Cape Colony and India when war broke out. It restricted Asiatics into segregated … entered the country illegally (mostly at the…
PlaceKroondal, Rustenburg
… when the river was too low to power the wheel. Sadly, the Boer war interrupted this steady, prosperous progress and Georg … meanwhile, removed bearings from…
PlaceHarrismith, Free State
… oldest in South Africa) and links with the South African War , with close by Battle Sites, Blockhouses and a Military Cemetery. (There are also Boer, Brit…
PlaceTransvaal Province
… The region was annexed by the British in 1877, but a Boer rebellion restored it in 1881. Following the Second Boer War (1899-1902) . The South African…
PlaceHeritage Route of King Shaka
… follow a foot path to the rock. Old Forts: Fort Pearson, War Graves and the Ultimatum Tree- All from the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War and can be found on the South…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… (as we know it today) before 1910. Britain had defeated Boer Republics in the South African War which date from (1899–1903). There were four separate ……
PlaceRailway Administration Building, bounded by Maitland-, Hanger, St Andrew and Harvey Streets, Bloemfontein
… March 1900 at the Battle of Paardeberg during the Second Boer War, the Station became a major point of strategic fighting …
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… and family farming disintegrate in the wake of war and landlordism. For Africans, the mines offer the wages … law. The African workers also rise. In 1902, as…
41. Statement of Indians to the Transvaal Constitution Committee, 1906
… have been very largely neglected. HISTORY OF BOER ANTI-INDIAN LEGISLATION There is in the Transvaal, at … population of over 12,000 British Indians. Before…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… best known for the famous siege during the South African War, which ended in a decisive victory for the British and … intellectual, journalist and activist…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… today northern Angola. The Kongo became powerful through war and capturing and enslaving the people they defeated. The … The result of this was that the…
PlaceBoys High School, Pretoria
… for very long owing to the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899. At the time, the building served as a prison, …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… at 900 whites and 960 blacks. When WWI broke out, some Boer leaders seized the occasion to mount a rebellion. The war saw the Boer community divided in two:…