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A growing urban African population
As Johannesburg expanded, so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of factories were being established and were growing in…
ArticleAfrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
… came into prominence in the 1970s. It aimed to create a Boer state based on the old Afrikaner republics. … [Schweizer-Reneke] is where we ended and the third…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and EnvironsThe Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in both western Gauteng and the North West…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, argued that the Germans was superior to all other races. Hitler became obsessed with 'racial purity' and used the…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… included the death of 26 000 women and children in the Anglo-Boer War, the failure of the 1914 Rebellion , and the growth …
PlaceSomalia
… Ethiopian encampments. [xx] The following year a joint Anglo-Ethiopian expedition of almost 17,000 men was …
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
Tatamkhulu Africa was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a Turkish mother on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to…
The Battle of Square Hill
Participation as combatants in the First World War was reserved for men of “European descent”. [i] According to Article 7 of the South African Defence Force…
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… built in the 1890s to house prisoners of war during the Anglo-Boer Wars (1899-1902); the Number Four Prison Block, a …
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… many memorials and sites of some important battles of the Anglo-Boer war , most notably the ' Siege of Kimberley', in 1899 … between 14 th October 1899 and…
PlacePretoria Correctional Service Museum
… But construction only took place in earnest after the Anglo-Boer War, when the company 'Prentice and Mackey' started work …
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… his childhood was spent in a concentration camp during the Anglo Boer War. This did not deter him from excelling academically. …
PlaceFrankfort
… church was burnt down by the British troops during the Anglo-Boer War. After the war it was rebuilt and inaugurated in …
PlaceBurgersdorp, E.C.
… Triumph of the Dutch Language'). Badly damaged during the Anglo-Boer War, Lord Milner had it removed. A replica was made and … There is also a Memorial to…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the Xhosa by the British in the frontier…
EventZanzibar and Kenya are admitted to the United Nations.
Two African countries, Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) and Kenya both became members of the United Nations on 16 December 1963. This year marks fifty years…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… (as we know it today) before 1910. Britain had defeated Boer Republics in the South African War which date from … Exodus from British rule in Cape to the…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… the dry regions of the Great Karoo. The San were raided by Boer commandos, who killed the men and captured the children … Natal, India and other parts of the…
EventThe League of Nations officially dissolves
The Organisation for international cooperation and peace, the League of Nations, established by the Allied Powers at the end of World War I was officially…
PlaceBrandfort, Free State
… 60 km North East of Bloemfontein. It commemorates the Boer women and children (and also farm workers) who died in … concentration camps were erected in early…
PlaceWinterton, Kwa Zulu-Natal
… in the foothills of the Drakensberg. Close to the Second Boer War battle sites of the Battle of Vaal Krantz and … of Monuments and Memorials connected to the…
PlaceForts Around Pretoria
… such as Pretoria. and Johannesburg, etc. The claim that a Boer father would hand a twelve-year old a musket and one … expect him to shoot his supper! This…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… The 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging between the British and the Boer republics ended the Second Anglo Boer War . This period saw a cordial relationship being ……
The Bill of Rights
The original numbering, as it appears in the South African Constitution, has been retained here, hence it begins at Article 7. 7. RIGHTS 1. This Bill…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… an indispensable part in military operations. On the Boer side Republican law forbade the carrying of arms by … meant an employee going along with his…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony and the two Boer Republics: The Transvaal and the Orange Free State). … of the Transvaal and Orange Free State…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic transformed the … Southern Africa through the use of war and conquest…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… a big slice of Johnnie, created from the unbundling by Anglo American of Johannesburg Consolidated Investments. …
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
Introduction European interest in Zimbabwe can be traced to the 18th century. This began with the arrival of Christian missionaries in 1858, who befriended…
PlaceKranskop, KZN
… Claridge and Dalton. From Battlefield sites of the Anglo-Boer War to historical churches, outdoor wilderness, …