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Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… discriminatory practices established in colonies and Boer republics. In order to understand the Act's core … how land alienation took place in British…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… by Marthinus Pretorius , son of Andries Pretorius , (the Boer statesman for whom the City was named after). Then … treaties like the Peace of Vereeniging…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
… an exaggerated kind, in which the hero was the Afrikaner Boer. He was pictured, first of all, trying to build a …