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ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… blocs in mining and agriculture united the Brits and the Boers in their need to secure cheap labour. So despite their differences, the Brits and the Boers…
Anglo-Boer War 2: The British threaten to use natives in the Boer War fight.
Andries J. Bester (81), Boer commandant during Anglo-Boer War 2, dies in Paul Roux, OFS.
EventBoer negotiators travelled from Vereeniging to Pretoria to present their proposals
Boer negotiators travelled from Vereeniging to Pretoria to present their proposals for surrender to British representatives, Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener…
Untold damage of Anglo-Boer war
EventArmistice negotiations are concluded during the First Anglo-Boer War
Paving the way for the end of Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence or First Transvaal War), a provisional armistice was agreed upon by General…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… Expanding European frontiers The Trek Boers, with their servants and slaves, move inland From the … and east from Cape Town. This movement was led by the…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… rifles they used) was a complicated procedure and so the Boers used more than one gun at a time - while aiming and … Transvaal. It has been suggested that…
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer forces are defeated by the British at the Battle of Elandslaagte.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Vereeniging conference begins. The sixty Boer representatives elect General C.F. Beyers as chairman.
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after Christiaan Frederik Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… the Basotho and the Kora. These White settlers (known as Boers) crossed the Orange River from the Cape Colony in the … and they therefore handed over the…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… With the advent of British rule at the Cape, the Boers, many of them eager to flee from the colony to escape … dictated by England proper. A further concern…
PlaceDe Beers Building, 88 St Georges Street, Simonstown
This sandstone structure dates from 1902 when it was designed by Herbert Baker for De Beer Cold Storage Syndicate, a meat outlet in Simonstown owned by Cecil…
Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General S.F. Oosthuizen dies of wounds received at Dwarsvlei on 11-07-1900.
Griqua
… Introduction The arrival of the Boers and the colonial masters to the area known as … the colony, while others hunted ivory for themselves. The Boers and…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
On 13 March 1888, De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. was founded to exercise control over virtually all diamond production in South Africa. The company was…
EventLabram, manufacturer of ‘Long Cecil’ is killed by shell from ‘Long Tom’
… of the defendants when Kimberley was under siege by the Boers during Anglo-Boer War 2. He died only a few days before …
Anglo-Boer War 2: The first Boer prisoners of war arrive at St Helena, on board of the Milwaukee.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener
Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Kitchener memorandum concerning the implementation of concentration camps for Boer women and children is
BiographyCharles Du Val
Charles Du Val was born in Manchester, England in 1810 of Irish parents. Du Val and his business manager and long-time associate, Arthur Fry, arrived in Cape…
BiographyBarney Barnato
Barney Barnato was born in 21 February 1851, Whitechapel slum of London. His original name was Barnett Issacs but changed it to Barney Barnatto when he was…
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
Christiaan de Wet was born at Leeuwkop near Smithfield, Orange Free State, on 7 October 1854. He received little formal education, spending his days helping…
Nicolaas Claassen Rautenbach, Boer soldier who was executed in 1901 by the British
Nicolaas Claassen Rautenbach, Boer soldier who was executed in 1901 by the British because he had stolen fourteen donkeys and some ammunition from them, is…