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A new class struggle
… to Spencer Tyron, in the Zulu War of 1879 and in the Boer War, the Whites were capable of mustering a thousand … inhabitants of South Africa. Coming so soon…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… Indeed, the Afrikaners had already been defeated in the Boer War (1899-1902) , but the British acted to appease the … relations already existing in the…
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… biggest shareholder in De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is Anglo American PLC. Today the company remains the biggest …
PlaceSteynsrus, Free State Province
… the centre of this Historic Town. (This was needed for the Boer Folk to come worship.) The corner stone to this NG …
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… Certainly the Vereeniging Treaty signed at the end of the Anglo-Boer War in 1902 disappointed and flabbergasted the African …
PlaceRailway Administration Building, bounded by Maitland-, Hanger, St Andrew and Harvey Streets, Bloemfontein
… March 1900 at the Battle of Paardeberg during the Second Boer War, the Station became a major point of strategic …
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… recommended an Afrikaner homeland to be centred on the old Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. In …
PlaceRed Location Museum
… which are rusted a deep red colour. These were part of a Boer concentration camp in Uitenhage and moved in 1900's, to …
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
… long distance from Cape Town to Somerset West. In 1987, Anglo-American Farms Limited (AmFarms) bought Vergelegen from …
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… the Cape Colony. Sometime between 1820 and 1826, trek Boer farmer Johan Nicolaas Brits settled in the Transoranje … enclosure', according to a woman detained…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… a trust, as well as through generous sponsorship from both Anglo-American and the City of Johannesburg. Major … 'Images of Wood' (1989), 'A decade of…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Strikes took place at Impala Platinum in Bophuthatswana, Anglo American’s Bank Colliery, at various mines in the … the next day a further 300,000 observed…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… Upon his release, he again asserted that he was a ‘boer warrior’ fighting for the survival of the Afrikaner …
PlaceBoys High School, Pretoria
… for very long owing to the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899. At the time, the building served as a …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… at 900 whites and 960 blacks. When WWI broke out, some Boer leaders seized the occasion to mount a rebellion. The war saw the Boer community divided in two:…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… an epidemic of plague swept the Cape Colony during the Anglo-Boer war, the experience with smallpox in the 1890’s was put …
PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
… to blow up the Artillery Barracks and magazine by the Boer's during british rule.The incedent was averted by A sentry who observed a Boer in a suspicious…
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… Schweizer-Reneke, is where we ended and the third Boer War, another South African war, will start here again. … Boers and this had resulted in the…
PlaceArtillery Road Barracks at the H.Q. of South African Defence
… to blow up the Artillery Barracks and magazine by the Boer's during the British rule. The incident was averted by a sentry who had observed a Boer in a…
PlaceDelgoa Bay Now Known as Maputo Bay, Mozambique
Delgoa Bay is a Bay on the South East coast of Mozambique, East Africa, near the South African border. Discovered by António do Campo, a member of Vasco da…
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… General Christiaan Rudolph de Wet was a Boer soldier and statesman, regarded by Afrikaner …
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… her exposure of conditions in the concentration camps for Boer women and children during the Second South African War. … “to feed, clothe, shelter and rescue…
PlaceIsandlwana Battlefield Site, Nqutu
… . The Battle of Isandlwana was the first engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War , on 22 January 1879. Umzinyathi District has …
PlaceHarrismith, Free State
… Blockhouses and a Military Cemetery. (There are also Boer, Brit and sandstone Architecture to be seen.) Many … Gate Highlands National Park , Basotho…
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
… an exaggerated kind, in which the hero was the Afrikaner Boer. He was pictured, first of all, trying to build a …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… of the 1950s. Included were: ‘ the brutality of the Boer, the terrible farm conditions, the phenomenal hypocrisy …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… and in particular against the consolidation of British-Boer domination as evidenced in the formation, two years … Speaking from the people`s daily experience…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… the discovery of gold, the Area was made up of various Boer Farms after which many of today's Suburbs are named: … back to around 1851 and this was around…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… law. The African workers also rise. In 1902, as the Anglo-Boer war ends, there is a labour shortage as Africans refuse …
PlaceKruger House Museum
… struggle for freedom from the British during the Second Boer War (1899 - 1902). Both the Kruger National Park and the …