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EventJameson Raid starts
… by a sudden advance he would reach Johannesburg before Boer forces could be mobilised to stop him. He was proven …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education
… dislocation of communities. The establishment of the Boer republics and the subsequent hostile relations with …
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 …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… of the Cape and now administrator of the two former Boer Republics, imposes a number of administrative acts that …
PlaceAngola
… Angola [cxxxii] . In the 1920s there was a great influx of Boer settlers from South Africa, but large scale settlement …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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 ’…
PlaceRwanda
Rwanda is a land-locked Country located in the Eastern part of Africa. People began settling in the area as early as 10.000BCE[i]. After several successive…
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.-…
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…
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…
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 …
Document 37 - The Bill of Rights
The original numbering, as it appears in the South African Constitution, has been retained here, hence it begins at Article 7. 7. RIGHTS 1. This Bill of…
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 …
Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club , Pamphlet No. II: The Conquest of Power in South Africa [1963]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club , Pamphlet No. II: The…