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ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… aimed to control them by forcing them to carry passes. The Boer Republic of the Orange Free State was the first … the signing of the Sand River Convention by…
PlaceMsinga Local Municipality
… and is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War. At Rorke's Drift the men were rewarded for …
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… from 105,000 to 37, 000. That same year veterans of the Anglo German Legion were brought out as military settlers to …
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… vigorously campaigned for a “Yes” vote. Companies such as Anglo-American, Barlow Rand, BP, Caltex, First National Bank, …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… was that of the Great Trek, the Day of the Covenant, the Anglo-Boer War, the concentration camps during that war, and other … indigenous historical ideas,…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
… dislocation of communities. The establishment of the Boer republics and the subsequent hostile relations with … differences can be traced to early African,…
Document 53 - M. Harmel, “Observations on Certain Aspects of Imperialism in South Africa”, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 3, February 1954
… with and, in an exceptional way, dependent on foreign-Anglo American - imperialism, this group corresponds closely … gold-mining. This requirement was not…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… the Treaty of Vereeniging of 31 May 1902, which ended the Anglo-Boer War and laid the basis for the adoption of South … the Constitutional Assembly. The…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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, Graskop- Mpumalanga Province
… prospectors working around 4000 claims! During the Second Boer War (11 October 1899 - 31 May 1902) the Town of …
General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885
General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885 Signed by the representatives of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium,…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… and in effect bans the singing of the song, "Shoot the Boer.” The court found he has no right to sing "Shoot the Boer," a song some whites find offensive…
PlaceSomerset West, Cape Helderberg
… is now owned by a subsidiary of the large mining company Anglo American, who have restored the farmhouse to its …
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…
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 …
PlaceWinterberg Mountains, Amatola
… area is steeped in a history that belongs to the Bushmen, Boer and British soldiers, and Scottish settlers. The …
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 …
PlaceZonnebloem College, Cape Town
… where the racially motivated Afrikaner republics lost the Boer War but won the peace through the machinations of …
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 …
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…
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…