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PlaceRobert Sobukwe Town, was called Graaf-Reinet
… viewing, rock art, fossil study, township walkabouts and Boer War monuments. A visit to the area would be incomplete …
PlaceGoshen
… Mafikeng, where Warren was surprised to find not a single Boer ready to defend Goshen. The transport drivers received …
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… comedians. In 1896, he came to South Africa, during the Boer War, where he met with Rudyard Kipling, the English …
PlaceThe Fountain and Garden of Remembrance, Chatswood-Sydney. Willoughby Park Centre
… in the service of the Empire, during the South African Boer War of 1899-1901.’ The marble Memorial is located in the … loughby.nsw.gov.au/your-neighbourhood…
PlaceWaverly Road Memorial, Durban South
… Avenue, in memory of those who lost their lives in the Boer War . It was designed by Walter Seymour Allward who was … Avenue, in memory of those who lost…
Chapter 8 - Survivors
… So it appeared that no one had slept on the bed. I heard a boer say,' kick the door down.' They tried but failed. The … hot. On hearing the shooting I…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate Library
… several changes over the years but was restored by Anglo-American, a global mining company, in 1987. The book …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… time. European troops entering Kumane during the second Anglo- Ashanti War. Image source The British fought against … in 1900 before claiming the region as a…
PlaceOutcrop of Main Reef Group of Conglomerates, Johannesburg
… of hunters, including Stephanus Erasmus, the well-known Boer hunter. Unfortunately for the party, while on this trip, … gold, while all the time relying on…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… British, and the Transvaal and Free State were areas under Boer control. The South Africa War was fought at the end of …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… declared that 16 December must be a public holiday in this Boer Republic. In 1894 the Government of the Free State also …
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… this occupied landscape was drawn into the orbit of the Boer republics, the mineral revolution and the imperial … Life / Barberton Town Council.| Pretorius,…
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
… Unfortunately,due to raids made by the British into the Boer Republics to get at the gold and diamonds there was a … Hotel played its part in the run up to…
EventThe reburial of Flora
… would be since the owners of the Vergelegen Wine Estate, Anglo-American Farms had arranged to put many of the elderly, …
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… historians attribute to the employment of his father on a Boer farm near Uitenhage as well as the influence of …
PlaceSouth Sudan
… British force was able to overthrow the Mahdist regime. An Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was then established the following year, …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… only, but during the depression, which came after the Anglo-Boer War, thousands still remained unemployed. As it …
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… the colonial government limited the activities of the Boer commandos, and refused to let them handle the law and …
PlaceOudtshoorn, Western Cape
… at 8,849, of whom 3,865 were literate. On 25 August 1901 Boer forces under Commandant Gideon Scheepers were sighted …
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… aimed to control them by forcing them to carry passes. The Boer Republic of the Orange Free State was the first … the signing of the Sand River Convention by…
PlaceMsinga Local Municipality
… and is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War. At Rorke's Drift the men were rewarded for …
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… from 105,000 to 37, 000. That same year veterans of the Anglo German Legion were brought out as military settlers to …
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… vigorously campaigned for a “Yes” vote. Companies such as Anglo-American, Barlow Rand, BP, Caltex, First National Bank, …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… was that of the Great Trek, the Day of the Covenant, the Anglo-Boer War, the concentration camps during that war, and other … indigenous historical ideas,…
41. Statement of Indians to the Transvaal Constitution Committee, 1906
… have been very largely neglected. HISTORY OF BOER ANTI-INDIAN LEGISLATION There is in the Transvaal, at … by Her late Majesty's Government, addressed to the…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
… dislocation of communities. The establishment of the Boer republics and the subsequent hostile relations with … differences can be traced to early African,…
Document 53 - M. Harmel, “Observations on Certain Aspects of Imperialism in South Africa”, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 3, February 1954
… with and, in an exceptional way, dependent on foreign-Anglo American - imperialism, this group corresponds closely … gold-mining. This requirement was not…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… the Treaty of Vereeniging of 31 May 1902, which ended the Anglo-Boer War and laid the basis for the adoption of South … the Constitutional Assembly. The…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… to africanhistory.about.com Expanding frontiers and trade Boer responses By the beginning of the eighteenth century, … 16 December 1838, leading to the…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… entered the country illegally (mostly at the time of the Anglo-Boer War) condoned and issued with condonation certificates. …