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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…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… General Smuts [who had led a guerrilla struggle of Boer settlers against the British from 1899-1902].In … British from the mid-1850’s] Jan Christian Smuts,…
PlaceGeluk
… The village of Geluk was occupied by Boer forces in October 1899. …
PlaceCameroon
Cameroon is sometimes referred to as a “true African crossroads” not only because of its geographical position, but also because of the country's great variety…
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 …
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 …
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…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… Businessmen protested against what they felt to be the Boer Transvaal Government's discriminatory attitude to the …
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 …
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…
SAHO Milestones
2000 June - Registration of SAHO as an NGO South African History Online (SAHO) was established in 2000, as a not-for-profit Section 21 organisation 30…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian labour, employing an average of 2 000 workers through the 1930s and 1940s. Municipal workers…
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…
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…
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 …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… was due to the efforts of Gavin Relly, a director at Anglo American. At this meeting Tambo explained the ANC’s …
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…
Bernard Shaw and May Morris
… about the purpose for it. I was a combatant myself in the Anglo-Boer War, but I was then an Imperial regular soldier and was …
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 …
EventMining Magnate Oppenheimer dies
… magnate, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who founded the Anglo American Corporation, died in Johannesburg at the age …
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… L T Dow, who was fatally wounded while serving in the 1st Anglo Boer War. Francis Gibson, a shipwright apprentice of HMS …