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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 …
Balfour Declaration 1926
SECRET 12 IMPERIAL CONFERENCE 1926 INTER-IMPERIAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT, PROCEEDINGS AND MEMORANDA E (I.R./26) Series (WITH SUBJECT INDEX) [This Document…
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 …
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
On October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
… long distance from Cape Town to Somerset West. In 1987, Anglo-American Farms Limited (AmFarms) bought Vergelegen from …
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 …
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was a powerful and fundamental process for South Africans. With many…
PlaceBurundi
Burundi is a relatively small country located in central Africa, and the name and approximate territory has a continuity with the Kingdom of Burundi which was…
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…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
“They have taught us through their orations the undesirability of a social system based on capitalism, that is inqubo yogimhelakwesabo, that is stuffing one’s…
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…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… of Jews forced to emigrate from the Transvaal during the Anglo-Boer war which brought to the city a large number of skilled …
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 …