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EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
… in the Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek (ZAR) through the Jameson Raid. Fitzpatrick was implicated in the Jameson Raid as the go-between of Cecil John Rhodes and …
PlaceStump Memorial, near Doornkop
… This is the spot where the cottage stood where Jameson surrendered to the Boer forces after the Jameson Raid (previously marked by a cut off tree stump). The…
BiographyJoseph Fansio Mati
Joseph Faniso Mati was born on a farm near Adelaide, Eastern Cape and grew up in Port Elizabeth. During high school, teachers encouraged students to attend…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
… gathering was non-racial, and also because of the police raid which took place during the assembly. As he had not …
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
… by a fortunate chance was not on the farm when the police raid took place, led the defence team. In agreeing to appear …
EventThe Transvaal National Union is established
… became an instrument of subversion, a tool of Rhodes, Jameson and the mine owners who conspired to bring about the abortive putsch, the Jameson Raid, in 1896…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… Poel's best-known works were on the British role in the Jameson Raid and on General Smuts. She, along with Helene Malan, … the University Press, 1966-1973)…
BiographyGcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile
… farm where the SADF had previously staged the Matola Raid in the Komatipoort region near the Mozambique border …
BiographyJames Kantor
… Hundreds of incriminating documents were found during the raid and members of the group were immediately arrested. …
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
Ashlatha Moodley (nèe Rambally) was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1946 and grew up in the small town of Colenso. After completing her…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… Cecil John Rhodes , and his associate, Dr Leander Starr Jameson, to begin planning an uprising of Uitlanders in … of the uprising. [82] This uprising is…
EventGeneral Lord Roberts marches on Pretoria
… the Witwatersrand, tension between political leaders, the Jameson Raid and the Uitlander franchise. The war ended on 31 May, …
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… with Britain. Nevertheless, he helped to capture the Jameson raiders. When speakers in the Raadzaal called for …
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
Premanathan "Prema" Naidoo, the youngest son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1945. He…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… (PAC) anti-pass demonstration at Sharpeville , a police raid on the Mandela home saw Nelson arrested and Winnie left … Winnie’s family up into the turmoil…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
… Burgers and Kruger, Generals de la Rey and Smuts, Sir L.S. Jameson and Sir Arnold Theiler and of events like the Jameson Raid, the Braamfontein dynamite…
BiographyFanele Mbali
Fanele Mbali was born on 1 December 1937 in a village called Eqolweni. Mbali’s father, Charlton Babana Mkhonto and his brother William Ntozakhe decided on the…
The Afrikaner Bond
… John Rhodes . But this would change after the notorious Jameson Raid . Politics before Bond Amalgamation: The Sprigg … thus averting more antagonism from the…
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… the Witwatersrand, tension between political leaders, the Jameson Raid and the Uitlander franchise. On 9 October 1899 the South …
PlaceSchanskop Fort, Pretoria
… under old NMC legislation on 29 June 1938. After the Jameson Raid in 1896, President Paul Kruger of the "Zuid-Afrikaansche …
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
… Kathrada, shot taken by the police during the Liliesleaf raid. Source: South African National Archives As the alliance …
First Matabele War
… Rhodes' right hand man and British Administrator Leander Jameson set up the 1893 Campaign. 3 British columns met near … Ndebele were forced to retreat. Fewer…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… journal of the ANC. [8] These fliers disclosed “the raid (called the “ Matola raid ”) that the South African National Defence Force (SADF) … in Mozambique,…
PlaceFort Schanskop
… After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the “Zuid-Afrikaansche …
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… Rhodes' influence on Bailey led to his involvement in the Jameson Raid, for which he had to pay a heavy fine. Bailey went on to …
BiographySimon van der Stel
… an armed force of 200 soldiers and Freeburghers. [3] The raid saw Dorha captured, many of his followers killed and …
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… this after the 1993, South African Defence Force (SADF) raid on a house in Mthatha that APLA used, resulting in five …
PlaceWonderboom Nature Reserve, Pretoria
… of Fort Wonderboompoort, a fort built at the time of the Jameson Raid. The reserve also has a variety of wildlife and plant …