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General Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I.
… South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I. …
At the opening of Parliament, President F.W. de Klerk warns that South Africa will be plunged into a Yugoslav style civil war i
… South Africa will be plunged into a Yugoslav style civil war i …
BiographyDr. Hans Merensky
… went bankrupt as a result of the Depression. During World War I he was called up and stationed in a camp near … Pietermaritzburg in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal)…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
… the Union Defense Force in 1940. In the Second World War, he served in Kenya until 1941, then in Egypt until 1944. … to England and was discharged after the…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… and reflected her love for the film industry. During World War II , Gutsche was hired by the South African government as … scripts for documentaries and…
BiographyFrederick Hutchinson Page
… is now synonymous, to work in a tyre factory in 1937. When war was declared in 1939 he rejoined the military, serving in the Signal Corps. It was only after…
BiographyJonty Driver
… time fighting in North Africa during the Second World War until he was captured in Toruk and imprisoned in Germany … (2005) Elegy for a Revolutionary , …
BiographyMarthinus Hattingh
… with MSF in Angola, documenting the effect of the civil war on the refugees in Angola. His work is mainly concerned …
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… role [ix] . King Mzilikazi Image source During the First Anglo-Boer War , Pretoria was besieged twice. The first time was in … leadership of British. On 5…
BiographyJonathan Ngwenya
… joined the Directing Staff at the South African National War College for a short while. Ngwenya enjoys reading and …
BiographyAnneke Laurie
… was forced to leave the country because of the civil war. Since then her family has moved to Botswana, England, …
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
… Forces in 1942 to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II and, on returning home, became a member of the …
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… the Portuguese and the Ndongo were engaged in a full blown war. From the 1580s Portugal was in constant war with the Kingdom of Ndongo in an effort to…
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… fourth and last son was born in Natal. In 1899 the Second Anglo-Boer (South African War) war broke out. Though Gandhi’s sympathies were with the Boers …
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
… Woodstock and District Six. After the outbreak of World War II, Kodesh joined the Union Defence Force and was deployed in Ethiopia, Libya and Italy. As war…
BiographyFred Carneson
… he enlisted in the army to fight in the Second World War. From 1938 to 1945, he served as radio officer and saw … injured at the Battle of El Alamein. It was…
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… OFS President M.T. Steyn. Later, when the South African War broke out in October 1899, Hetzog's life changed … forces in Kimberley. Just before the Boers'…
BiographyElijah H. Mdolomba
… to a loyalist African army unit in Natal, and during World War I he served in France with an African labor battalion. In …
BiographyGeorge Edward Peake
… as a bricklayer. After serving in the navy in World War II , he became an active member of the Building Workers' … People's Organisation, served in the navy…
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
… Atlanta,Georgia.He enlisted in the American army in World War One and fought inFrance,then returned to the U.Sand …
BiographyPaul Herman Robinson
… such as The Wall and Tuturano Times . After the war he returned to The Natal Mercury where he worked as …
BiographyMichael Hathorn
… Margaret Cormack, a medical Student at Wits, and after the war, decided to do medicine as well. He and Margaret worked …
BiographyRay E. Phillips
… active in South Africa for four decades following World War I . He participated in the Joint Council movement and was …
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
… in his compositions. At the outbreak of the South African War in 1899 he returned to Natal””mostly on foot, since the … With the scarcity of building…
BiographyMary Agnes Stainbank
… to the buying public of the day. During the Second World War, Stainbank worked in a military drawing office. After war service, she was appointed Head of the…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
… leaders, hoped and believed that Hitler would win the war. When Goldreich's teacher distributed the German … way.Goldreich moved to Israel to fight in the…
The Battle of Ulundi, decisive battle during the Zulu War, takes place with the British forces gaining the upper hand and Cetsh
… The Battle of Ulundi, decisive battle during the Zulu War, takes place with the British forces gaining the upper …
Tjaart van der Walt, frontier farmer and field commandant who played an important role in the third frontier war against the co
… who played an important role in the third frontier war against the co …
Allan Lewis (66), first official SA war artist and portrait painter of Sir Winston Churchill and Gen. J.C. Smuts, dies in Stell
… Allan Lewis (66), first official SA war artist and portrait painter of Sir Winston Churchill and …
The Korean War breaks out. Nearly 90,000 North Korean soldiers and hundreds of Russian-built T-34 tanks cross the border into S
… The Korean War breaks out. Nearly 90,000 North Korean soldiers and …