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EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
… Boers declared the area the Orange Free State, a Boer republic in 1853. The Orange Free State was recognised … the Orange and Vaal Rivers. In the course of…
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
On 29 September 1978, Balthazar Johannes Vorster stepped down as Prime Minster of South Africa after the holding office since 1966. John Vorster, as he became…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… ambulance corps of 1100 men during his service in the Boer War 1906 He organizes stretcher-bearer corps that serves …
PlaceCentral African Republic
Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and quartz tools that are at least 8,000 years old. About 2,500 years ago local…
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
IntroductionNovember 1977, Dr Mamphele Ramphele stands over Steve Biko's open casket in his home before the funeral, attended by 20,000 mourners at King…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… class. GENDER IDEOLOGY IN WHITE SETTLER SOCIETIES The Boer tradition The political culture that developed in the … London and Somerset East in 1911. In the…
From Segregation to Apartheid
The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… 1900-1910 Gumede’s hopes that the British victory in the Anglo-Boer war would result in the removal of the oppressive … to attend this inaugural meeting. His…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… prevents any spread of the disease. 1902 31 May, the Anglo-Boer War/South African War ends with the signing of the … dossier of all anti-Indian measures that…
PlaceGreater Mapungubwe Heritage Site And Tour.
… a number of very significant incidents during the Anglo-Boer War. …
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… of brutal aggression, robbery and rapine, the frontier Boer took fright and fled from his protector and defender, … and Smuts. The Afrikaner victims of the…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… the white foreign invaders and colonial conquerors, both Boer and British. With spears and battle-axes their only … sixty years and, for the Africans, the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic NEW FACTORIES, NEW WORKERS described how rapid…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that positioned itself to challenge the rising Afrikaner nationalism. The ANC which was weak in the 1920 and…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… ago I reviewed Rob Eales’ book on Emily Hobhouse and the Boer War published by UCT Press in 2015 (The Compassionate … I was drawn to that book because it…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… rand group that was at one point second only in size to Anglo American, currently; this business empire encompasses … way as the Oppenheimers were the family…
EventBirth of Paul Kruger
… at age 57. Thereafter he became known as the face of the Boer resistance against the British during the South African / Second Boer War (1899-1902).The…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… times of tumultuous change in South Africa, including the Anglo Boer War and the creation of the Union of South Africa. He …
PlaceRepublic of Congo
The Republic of Congo, also known as Middle Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, and Congo (but not to be confused with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… 'We also declare that it is the end of suppression of the Boer nation, and for that we honour only God. For this reason … ANC must also know that it is not…
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… 2,668, of whom 1,188 were literate. On 14 November 1899 a Boer force of 700 men under the joint command of Chief … British troops under Major-General John…
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… district of Vryheid, a Zulu Chief, Sikobobo, attacked a Boer regiment after the latter had stolen their cattle, … a British raiding force under Col…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… or "inboekselings". These are mainly labourers in the Boer settlements that spread in the interior of South Africa, particularly in areas that were to become…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… farmers were so strong that when Africans began raiding Boer cattle at the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War in 1899, Jane objected to breaking the…
ArchiveAfrica puts the West on trial
… Nations Security Council's debate on South Africa and the Anglo-American accord influence on this debate …
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
… that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and children, driven from their land by the … policy dictated the destruction of the farms and…
EventPretoria receives city status
… in 1910 with the merger of the Transvaal Colony (former Boer Republic of the ZAR), the Orange Free State Colony (former Boer Republic of the Orange Free…
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… warriors proved strong enough to repel them. In 1852, the Boer government in Transvaal entered into a peace agreement …
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a leading item on the agenda of the South African labour…