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ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… the British MI5 & MI6 services can be traced back to the Anglo Boer War. With the Cold War beginning, it was clear that … that Danie Theron was one of the…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… claim that it disappeared in 1900 during the South African Anglo-Boer War. Distraught and temporarily without a leader the …
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… to the interior of the country and ultimately creating Boer Republics in the Free State and the Transvaal after … this setting that African nationalism had…
PlaceLeliefontein
… History: During the South African War - (also known as the Anglo-Boer War ), it was the site of the devastating 1902: ' …
PlaceLambert's Bay
… ship was sent to Lambert’s Bay as a patrol boat during the Anglo-Boer war (1899 - 1902)), Photograph collection, Fish industry …
Zulu Community
… the land between Durban and the Tugela river to found a Boer Republic in Natal. Shortly afterwards, Dingane had the … This policy was set to bring the…
PlaceRobertson, Route 62
… and Mossel Bay with Robertson its Head Post Office. The Anglo Boer War of 1899 – 1902 saw the stationing in the Town of a …
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… buildings, combined with its rich History of the Anglo-Boer War and early settlers, make it a fascinating place to … buildings, combined with its rich…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1915
… British suffer a heavy casualty of 50 000 men. 3 October Anglo-French army lands at Salonika, Greece. 19 December …
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… W. Schlesinger made his home in South Africa after the Boer war, and founded several insurance companies. He …
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…
PlaceSomalia
… Ethiopian encampments. [xx] The following year a joint Anglo-Ethiopian expedition of almost 17,000 men was …
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…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… entered the country illegally (mostly at the time of the Anglo-Boer War) condoned and issued with condonation certificates. … entered the country illegally …
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 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…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… in Cape Town. [12] The attitude of the governments of the Boer republics was one of undisguised hostility towards … his manhood’. [25] Gandhi acknowledged…
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…
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
This photograph of two Ndebele leaders is entitled on its reverse: ‘Chiefs “Babyon” & “Omjaam.” Babyan was answerable for the assassination of Alan Wilson’s…
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…