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Lugard, with Maxim gun, helps pro-British Protestants defeat pro-French Catholics in Buganda civil war. Kabaka Mwanga flees.
… Protestants defeat pro-French Catholics in Buganda civil war. Kabaka Mwanga flees. …
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord … African History,This day in…
BiographyAlan Wieder
… Comrade, and most recently Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid. Although he lives in the United …
BiographyMartin Plaut
… South Africa: Out of the Laager? Fabian Society, 1991 War in the Horn Royal Institute of International Affairs, … Gilkes) Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… has been involved in through the centuries including the Anglo-Boer Wars, the Anglo-Zulu War, World War I and II, the conflict in South West Africa …
EventGeneral Sir Redvers Henry Buller’s troops relieve British forces at Ladysmith
… a month after the outbreak of the Second South African War (also known as Second Anglo-Boer War), which broke out in October 1899. Ladysmith was not ……
BiographyJohn Thomas Baines
… Swamps (1850). He became South Africa’s first official war artist and recorded the Eighth Frontier War (1850-1853). In 1852 Baines returned to England and …
BiographyWilliam H. "Bill" Andrews
… speaker. After breaking with the Labour Party on the war issue, he was not re-elected to Parliament in 1915 and turned to organising the anti-war…
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… with Dalasile the chief of the AmaQwati. During the Ninth War of Dispossession, Stanford was appointed to oversee the … Stanford then took office. During the…
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… Commander-in-Chief of the British forces during the second Anglo Boer War (1989-1902). He received the local rank of general around … Cloete, P.G. (2000)…
BiographyGeorge Arthur Heard
… was involved in lobbying for South Africa to enter the war on the Allied side. After the declaration of war, he exposed what he claimed were security…
BiographyJohn Liebenberg
… to Johannesburg, from where he covered the Angolan civil war as freelancer for Reuters. He later joined Media 24 … His Namibian photographic collection…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… during a period of economic depression following World War I, when mining companies were faced with rising costs and … in the price of gold.... Build-up to…
BiographyJames la Guma
… Cape Town in the period following the South African War (1899-1902), la Guma was no stranger to the privations … harshly exploitative conditions. The…
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Commandant General Louis Botha issue a proclamation in Pretoria
… The proclamation was made during the second South African War (also known as Anglo Boer War II), which broke out on 9 October, 1899. The … History Online, …
BiographyDag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
… the eastern province of Katanga, Congo where civil war had intensified. Hammarskjöld known as a champion of … a secret meeting to negotiate an end to the…
BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
… when he set up a studio in London after the First World War. His career in England was punctuated by return visits to … as well as his portraits of black…
BiographyLeo Marquard
… also at the forefront of church’s activities. When World War I broke out, Leo joined his brother who had enlisted for … African Institute of Race Relations…
BiographyMaema Matlala
… man who had served in East Africa during the First World War,was related by blood, to the royal family, was the … vans, to be taken away’. He responded that…
EventNegotiators representing Afrikaner Republics travel to Pretoria to present terms of surrender
… At the end of the South African War (also known as the Anglo-Boer War) of 1899-1902, negotiators for the Afrikaner … (Accessed: 24 April 2012)| Spartacus…
EventGeneral De la Rey releases General Lord Methuen after his wounds are treated
… Towards the end of the Second South African War (Anglo-Boer War 2), General De La Rey released General … South African History Online , ‘Anglo-Boer War 2:…
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… a few years after the end of the first South African War (Anglo-Boer War) and the restoration of the Transvaal Republic after …
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
… to all Blacks, whether in the British colonies or the Boer Republics. Peregrino, who served as secretary of both …
Somalia: A Government at the War with its People - Testimonies about the killings and the Conflict in the North, January 1990
… Somalia: A Government at the War with its People - Testimonies about the killings and the …
ArchiveSomalia – The Untold Story: The War Through the Eyes of Somali Women edited by Judith Gardner and Judy El Bushra
… Somalia – The Untold Story: The War Through the Eyes of Somali Women edited by Judith Gardner …
Korean War (1950-1953). South African No 2 Squadron, known as Cheetah Squadron, comprising of fifty officers and 157 other rank
… Korean War (1950-1953). South African No 2 Squadron, known as …
The decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the Ndebele War, Rhodesia. The Ngubi, Mbezu and Nsukamini regiments fou
… Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the Ndebele War, Rhodesia. The Ngubi, Mbezu and Nsukamini regiments fou …
World War 2: North Africa Vichy military chief in Algeria, Admiral Darlan, orders an end to the resistance against the Allies.
… World War 2: North Africa Vichy military chief in Algeria, Admiral …
The Battle of Muizenberg takes place during the Napoleontic War when British troops disembark at Muizenberg and move towards Ca
… The Battle of Muizenberg takes place during the Napoleontic War when British troops disembark at Muizenberg and move …
Mohammed Farah Aidid, who has controlled much of Somalia during its civil war, dies of wounds suffered during a skirmish with a
… Aidid, who has controlled much of Somalia during its civil war, dies of wounds suffered during a skirmish with a …