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Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… is necessary to take our position on the questions of the anglo-russian comittee, and of the chinese revolution; to the …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… William Huntley was an English soldier during the Boer war, who was hospitalised in Mthatha where his …
PlaceRichards Bay
… Watching'. It was also had a Temporary Harbour during the Anglo Boer War of 1879 . Richards Bay was named after; British … Richards Bay had a temporary…
Griqua
… and ammunition. Trouble started when Kok arrested a Boer accused of ill-treating his people, and the trekker … find a new community failed and most returned…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… of the Cape and now administrator of the two former Boer Republics, imposes a number of administrative acts that …
PlaceWitwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
… British. They crossed the Vaal rivers and setup two new Boer Republics ; The Orange Free state and the Vaal Boer Republic electing their own presidents.-…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… 15 years after the Union of South Africa was formed. The Boer community was still recovering fresh wounds from the …
EventDinizulu succeeds his father, Cetshwayo, as King of the Zulus.
… the Zulu Royal House put him under the protection of their Boer allies in the border districts of the neighbouring South …
PlaceGreen Lodge, 81 St George Street, Bloemfontein
… This resulted in the formation of the independent Boer Republic of the Orange Free State. The convention was …
Document 46 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International left Opposition to Johannesburg comrades, 23 October 1932
… of the Left Opposition (chinese Revolution, anglo-russian committee, russian question, our position to …
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… 1886 and 1888. Edmund Bourke became a burger of the Boer Republic and was a personal friend of President Kruger. … and equipment through Lourenço Marques …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… state that controlled a huge territory. There were no Boer states in existence by 1810. Some Griquas and Korana … called “Great Trek” in simplistic terms…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… Coldstream Guards in London, following our return from the Anglo-Boer War. Soon after my arrival I was listening to a Labour … There was a rush to South…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… discrimination was at a peak at the turn-of-the-century. Anglo-Boer tensions were at a height and Municipal elections were … of the original Dutch settlers ’…
PlaceTransvaal Province
… The region was annexed by the British in 1877, but a Boer rebellion restored it in 1881. Following the Second Boer War (1899-1902) . The South African…
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… bears reflecting that before 1884 the area was settled by Boer farmers on only nine farms in this area, dominated by …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… The AWB’s intention was to establish a homeland for the Boer ‘volk’ (people). The AWB functioned as a semi-secret …
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… ancestors were from different groups - some were a mix of Boer and Khoikhoi, or slaves and Khoikhoi, or Boer and slaves. They spoke Dutch (Afrikaans). D. The…
PlaceVlakfontein Monument, Roodepoort
… to commemorate the Jameson Raid of 1895/ 96, in which the Boer Commandos managed to prevent the Jameson’s invasion on 2 …
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… military historian Max Hastings as a "rehabilitated Boer" and one of the British Empire's "foremost heroes", had graduated from anti-British foe during the…
PlaceGriquatown
… to 1,244. On 17 November 1899 Griquatown was captured by Boer forces and probably remainedin their hands … Charles Warren entered the village. On 27 October…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… early 1800s. But by mid century there was a rudimentary Boer republic in place, the previous black inhabitants were … early 1800s. But by mid century there…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… The Boers took on the might of the British Empire in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. The valour of the Boer bittereinders in the last two years of the war…
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… government withdrew the 20-year lease stipulated in the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936. Britain refused to withdraw …
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… General Louis Botha left to rally the remnants of the Boer army. Botha had been persuaded to continue the war by …
Zastron
… the founding of Zastron that the Free State Volksraad (Boer parliament) waited six years to recognize the town. The …
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… by Marthinus Pretorius , son of Andries Pretorius , (the Boer statesman for whom the City was named after). Then … treaties like the Peace of Vereeniging…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… discriminatory practices established in colonies and Boer republics. In order to understand the Act's core … how land alienation took place in British…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… no longer beneficial for their profits. Big companies like Anglo American began to suggest that economic growth required …
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… of humanity' to benefit from 'the civilising influence of Anglo Saxon rule' . In 1929, an Australian anthropologist …