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ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… entered the country illegally (mostly at the time of the Anglo-Boer War) will be condoned and issued with condonation …
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…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… are still not allowed to own property in the two former Boer Republics (Transvaal and the Orange Free State), or to …
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… fought with great courage against the British during the Boer War and had written "A Century of Wrong", which included … of Capitalism". Smuts was known to…
PlaceSomerset West, Cape Helderberg
… is now owned by a subsidiary of the large mining company Anglo American, who have restored the farmhouse to its …
PlaceGreen Point
… for a large number of British troops as well as a camp for Boer POWs. Green Point is today a very "chic" neighbourhood …
PlaceKlerksdorp- Matlosana Local Municipality
… confluence with the Vaal River . This was where the first Boer settlement in the Transvaal was found. Opposite on the …
PlacePilgrims Rest
… prospectors working around 4000 claims! During the Second Boer War (11 October 1899 - 31 May 1902) the Town of …
PlacePiet Retief now officially known as eMkhondo
Piet Retief was one of the leaders of the Boers during the Great Trek in the 1830's. The Boers were mostly descendants of early Dutch settlers. They undertook…
PlaceKathu
… primarily due to activity at the Sishen Mine , operated by Anglo American’s Kumba Iron Ore. Recently built houses at … primarily due to activity at the…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… relationship based the tenure of land. [....] In the Boer pastoral communities no feudal system could emerge, … The Boers fought hard for and forced Britain…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… to Potchefstroom during the economic disruptions of the Anglo-Boer War and World War I. A severe drought in 1926 drove even … colour bar - it was open to …
PlaceWinterberg Mountains, Amatola
… area is steeped in a history that belongs to the Bushmen, Boer and British soldiers, and Scottish settlers. The …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… intellectual, journalist and activist Sol T Plaatje in his Boer War Diary: An African at Mafeking The Free State The … to its diamond mining past and the…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… the Free State and the Basotho in ten years began, and Boer forces overran Moshoeshoe's land and conquered all the …
PlaceTugela River and Waterfalls, in the Drakensberg
… - two Historic Forts built by the British during the Anglo-Zulu War . There are at least 10 golf courses within …
PlaceZonnebloem College, Cape Town
… where the racially motivated Afrikaner republics lost the Boer War but won the peace through the machinations of …
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
… there is much work for us to do. At the time of the Boer War, Lord Selborne said that the need to protect the … the position of Indians much worse than it…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… entered the country illegally (mostly at the time of the Anglo-Boer War) condoned and issued with condonation certificates. … entered the country illegally …
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… struggle for freedom from the British during the Second Boer War (1899 - 1902) . Both the Kruger National Park and …
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… also drew the enmity of the other farmers, and the old Boer-Brit, Afrikaans-English antagonisms re-surfaced. Our … like Consolidated Diamond Mines or De…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… to the 1940s. (6) The trek to the cities combined with the Boer defeat at the hands of the British was what shaped …
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… were sitting at the top table with Harry Oppenheimer’s Anglo-American. Apartheid was going to break down, I said, … we were allowed to read. My interest was…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… travelled to Natal (and subsequently founded the Boer republic of Natalia (1840-1843)). [26] Immigrants from … travelled to Natal (and subsequently founded…
ArchiveFrom eNcome over Bloedrivier to eNcome and Beyond by Ben Khumalo-Seegelken
FROM eNCOME OVER „BLOEDRIVIER“ TO eNCOME AND BEYOND Ben Khumalo-Seegelken, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany Conference …
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… followers retreated into some caves. In late October two Boer commandos and their Kgatla allies attacked the caves, … took 6 300 cattle, 1 200 goats and 450…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… of creating a single state out of the two independent Boer republics - the Transvaal and Orange Free State - on the …
PlaceKokstad
The little town of Kokstad sits on the boundary between KwaZulu Natal and the Eastern Cape, nestled in the heart of Griqualand East. Kokstad lies in the shadow…
PlaceHeritage Route of King Shaka
… War Graves and the Ultimatum Tree- All from the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War and can be found on the South bank of the …
Document 79 - “What is the Communist Party? Lesson 4: What will be Done in the Bantu Republic?”, Umsebenzi, 17 March 1934
… to hoot and jeer and threaten. Many of these were Boer farmers, who had already forgotten the stand I had made …