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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
… and embarks on a voyage to create enthusiasm for the Boer cause, with some success. However, not one government …
UCT Summer School 2020
… doubts, change and challenges MORE UNTOLD STORIES OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR Emeritus Professor Mike de Jongh, research fellow, … and tells the stories that lie…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… near Wonderboompoort, immediately north of the future Boer town of Pretoria. Musi, in his turn, had five sons: … settled at Namashaxelo, near the site of the…
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
… confine myself to a study of the days subsequent to the Anglo-Boer War. To get a clear grasp of the movements during the … divide the years into these…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… are merchants and hawkers. 11 October, Beginning of the Anglo Boer War/South African War . Blacks are evacuated from the …
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… his studies Oppenheimer returned to Johannesburg to join Anglo American Corporation which was founded by his father in … 1945. During the 1950s he was…
EventSekhukhune successfully resists the Boers
… successfully resisted the Boers during a protracted Boer/Bapedi land ownership dispute. On 16 May 1876, the … Republic declared war on Sekhukhune and his…
Telegram to Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic by Oliver Tambo, 27 May 1967
… and Arab people in their firm stand and struggle to resist Anglo-American Machinations to recolonise Arab States. War … engineered as an act of provocation…
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 …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the Treaty of Vereeniging of 31 May 1902, which ended the Anglo-Boer War and laid the basis for the adoption of South … up a final Constitution. The birth of…
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 …
EventBlack empowerment makes headway
… In South Africa's largest Black economic empowerment deal, Anglo American and the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) signed an agreement for Anglo to sell…
EventThe Battle of Ulundi begins
… The Battle of Ulundi was the decisive battle during the Anglo-Zulu War. It took place on the 4th July 1879 and marked the end of the Anglo-Zulu War, as well…
EventBritain and Egypt agree on independence for Sudan.
… Following a series of campaigns between 1896 and 1898, an Anglo-Egyptian force under Herbert Kitchener destroyed the … in 1899 established the condominium…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… World War, coming little more than a decade after the Anglo-Boer war had ended, faced South Africans with a conundrum. … Afrikaners? For the government of…
EventCetshwayo, travels to London to request that he should be restored as a king of the Zulu Kingdom
… Cape after losing the crucial Battle of Ulundi, during the Anglo Zulu War against Sir Frere and his men. Cetshwayo … flee to Eshowe, where he died in 1884…
PlaceDarters Pass, Northern Cape
… the narrow Pass in 1902, right at the end of the second Anglo-Boer war. This Pass is located on the N7 Cape-Namibia route … the narrow Pass in 1902, right at…
PlaceLady Grey, Eastern Cape
… 1893 with Mr. B.J. Brummer as the first Mayor. Before the Anglo Boer War there were no poor White people in Lady Grey. During …
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
… African War of 1899 to 1902, (formerly known as the Second Anglo-Boer War ). The story goes that at the end of this very, …
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 … industrial, and otherwise. (23)…
The Afrikaner Bond
… of the people. Some wanted to see Dutch adopted as the Boer lingua franca, while an opposed group sought to develop … in 1877. In 1881 the Boers prevailed in…
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 …
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… presented the British final peace proposals to the Boer negotiators after the South African War. Milner … midnight. After the peace proposal was presented to…
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… moved to Johannesburg, where he found a job at the Anglo-Alpha cement company. In 1982, he led a strike, and … in the Trade Union Movement. In 1986, he was…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… Transvaal and the Orange Free State had become independent Boer/Afrikaner republics in 1852 and 1854 respectively. The …
EventBoers occupying Magagabe Hill shell Rhodesian positions at Basuto Kop
… were firstly detected when a Rhodesian patrol came upon Boer positions at Basuto Kop. The Boers however were too … escaped unscathed. The Rhodesian response…
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
… Boers declared the area the Orange Free State, a Boer republic in 1853. The Orange Free State was recognised … the Orange and Vaal Rivers. In the course of…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… War is declared, pitting the British against the two Boer republics Timeline: Rustenburg 1900-2001 1900 15 June, For two weeks Jan Smuts organises Boer…
PlaceNewcastle
… Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War , Newcastle today is the largest town in northern … Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War, Newcastle today is the…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… which was under British control following the Second Anglo Boer War . This arrangement continued until 1906, when the …