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PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… Ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics of the; Orange Free State and the Transvaal … President Andries Pretorius declared the…
PlaceNiewoudtville
… it as a kerkplaats (church farm). On 20 June 1901 Boer forces entered the village and ransacked its post … to its establishment. Five months later, on 25…
PlacePosthuys
… residence, until it was restored with funds from the Anglo American Corporation. Evidence exists that the site … additions to the structure and in turn sold…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… the Xhosas; the Zulus; and my people, the Afrikaners. The Anglo-Boer War was by far the biggest of the 50 or so wars that … - who were so admired by Europe…
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 … Tudor style” and the Interior Décor,…
EventThe Battle of Kambula takes place
… On 29 March 1879, the Anglo-Zulu War Battle of Kambula took place. The battle …
EventBritain proclaims Natal a British colonial territory
… the power of the volksraad finally came to an end. In the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 the British defeated the Zulus under … South African History Online, ‘Anglo…
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter’s commando burns Chief Sikhobobo’s kraal at Qulusini
… kilometres north of Vryheid. The impi surrounded the Boer laager intending to surprise them but a premature shot … By A de V Minnaar ‘ZULULAND AND THE ANGLO…
EventField-Cornet Jan Potgieter's commando burns Chief Sikhobobo's kraal at Qulusini
… kilometres north of Vryheid. The impi surrounded the Boer laager intending to surprise them but a premature shot …
EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… declared war on France in September 1798 and facing an Anglo-Turkish alliance, Napoleon decided the strike first and … army landed at Aboukir, transported…
PlaceGeluk
… The village of Geluk was occupied by Boer forces in October 1899. …
Gandhi, Tamils and the Satyagraha in South Africa by E.S Reddy
… the British troops in a non-combatant capacity during the Anglo-Boer War and was granted residence in the Transvaal. He went … Africa, was in the ambulance…
ArchiveNUM, FEDTRAW, rural, parliament and miscellaneous
… Different articles on NUM, as Anglo American Corporation yesterday appeal to the National …
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
… During his career he had been chairman of both the Anglo-American Corporation and De Beers Consolidated Mines …
PlaceElaandslaagte, a Mission Station in Kwa Zulu Natal
… attractions but because a major battle of the Second Boer War took place here. In fact, it was one of the few … the recent rains'. The war began two days…
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…
PlaceOld English Fort, Marabastad
… This fort was the site of a Boer siege in 1880, where 140 soldiers were held for 104 …
EventKgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo) dies
… Transvaal (now Limpopo) who led his followers in the Boer-Gagananwa war of 1894, dies in Bochum-Blouberg, Northern …
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… Businessmen protested against what they felt to be the Boer Transvaal Government's discriminatory attitude to the …
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…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… in present-day Zimbabwe . Southern interior: role of Boer, Kora and Griqua raiders The Boer raiders were frontier farmers who from the Cape Colony. … Lesotho…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… Towards an African Literature ii, Dr. A.C. Jordan. Anglo-Saxon Dreams, Michael Picardie. High Fence, Michael …
EventEgypt is placed under martial law in response to widespread riots against the British
… approved the unilateral official cancellation of the Anglo-Egyptian Alliance Treaty of 1936 and appointed Crown …
EventNatal Football Union founded
… The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the subsequent war with the South …
EventThe Battle of Gingindlovu
… The Anglo-Zulu War Battle of Gingindlovu took place on 2 February …
PlaceFourteen Streams
… Fourteen Streams to Kimberley, and the following day a Boer force under field-cornet Bosman marched into the … the village was returned to the Cape on 6 May…
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… and Britain and France came on the same day when the Anglo-French ultimatum was handed to Egypt and Israel before …
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 … they served. Interest groups…
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… was an ardent believer in colonialism, declaring that the Anglo-Saxon race was the first race and therefore should …