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BiographyGordon Sprigg
… He crushed the Xhosa state and provoked the Transkeian rebellion . Sprigg’s government fell when Frere was recalled …
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
… history, and hailing those ‘martyred’ after the Slagter’s Nek rebellion. According to Davenport: ‘It was romantic history … of melodrama, best seen in their…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… wars, which coincided with the so-called “Second Hottentot Rebellion.” After acquiring primary school education, …
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… of national importance and setting off a tumultuos student rebellion throughout South Africa. He stood steadfast against …
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… walk for many hours with the family dogs from Constantia Nek to Newlands Forest. Judge Cooper and Gertrude have three …
BiographyLouis Botha
… in the Transvaal and the Orange Free State had become a rebellion. Botha defeated De Wet in a sharp skirmish, Beyers was put to flight and subsequently…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… located between Middledrift and Keiskammahoek Bongolo Nek, located between Queenstown and Qoqodale Bosluis Kloof, … between Citrusdal and Prince Alfred…
BiographyHenry Burton
… Boer Revolt of 1914 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritz_rebellion ) and the Germans in South West Africa (now …
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… other proceedings during the 19th century. The Slagtersnek Rebellion The Slagtersnek rebellion of 1815 brought home to … history, and hailed those ‘martyred’…
BiographyGideon Mendel
… activism in collaboration with Greenpeace and Extinction Rebellion; and it has been published in magazines such as …
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
… at Ficksburg from 1914 to 1915. During the 1914 Rebellion Swart was arrested and imprisÂoned and appeared …
BiographyEla Gandhi
… about two kilometres away from home. “This was my first rebellion”. Ela was admitted into a standard four class. The …
BiographyCecyl Esau
… National Congress, etc. ↵ [8] It is not a shame if a rebellion fails, however, it is a shame if a generation …
PlaceGardens, Cape Town
… stone’s throw of the centre of Cape Town, joined by Kloof Nek . Gardens is a very popular suburb and one of the oldest … secret stairways and the stories…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… 22, 1883. Mampuru was sentenced to death for murder and rebellion and was hanged in Pretoria prison on November …
BiographyHermanus Gabriel Loots
… Groepe displayed divided feelings during the Kat River Rebellion of 1851, urging the rebels not to attack the Fort …
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… servants increased tensions, and in January 1799 a second rebellion occurred in Graaff-Reinet. This precipitated the … Third Frontier War (1799-1803) In…
PlaceGhwarrie Poort
… Cape include the high-altitude, treacherous Naude's Nek Pass (the highest point in South Africa), the more … and the Pitseng Pass, a shorter alternative to…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… was for a large number of Uitlanders to launch an armed rebellion against the government and request help from the …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek begins
… some 200 men, when his scouts brought information that the Nek was lightly held and that the commanding shoulders of the Nek had been ignored. He decided to…
PlaceBeau Constantia, a Cape Town- Wine Estate
… is a boutique wine farm situated at the top of Constantia Nek overlooking False Bay . Vines are planted to an elevation … farm situated at the top of the…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… the indigenous cultures were gradually being destroyed. A rebellion by Herero people in Namibia broke out in January … Africa rose up against the German…
The War
… took place on the same day at Modderspruit and Nicholson’s Nek and here the Boers won. British forces went on the …
PlaceFetcani Pass, Eastern Cape
… If you continue on the R393 you come too, Lundin’s Nek Pass! Which is on the Right-hand Fork to Rhodes University. Lundin’s Nek lies only 70 km after the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… in the treatment of Africans by the British. The Bhambhata Rebellion , lead by Chief Bambatha kaMancinza , takes place in Natal. The armed rebellion is…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… between the British and the Boer republics The Bambatha rebellion was a notable Black South African response to the … and the Boer republics. The root of the…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… be able to say Jij to their mistresses.’ [vi] While the rebellion was short-lived, its effects were most certainly … [i] Worden, Nigel. ‘How a slave from…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… African War of the 1870s and 1899 respectively, the 1914 Rebellion, both World Wars. In 1914, under British directive, … used to crush rebellions and strikes…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… its policies of indirect government. The Bambatha rebellion was a notable Black South African response to the … and the Boer republics. The root of the…