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EventGideon Scheepers executed
… Commandant Gideon Scheepers, Boer scout and commanding officer during the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War) was executed by a firing squad beside …
BiographyJonathan Ngwenya
… joined the Directing Staff at the South African National War College for a short while. Ngwenya enjoys reading and …
BiographyAnneke Laurie
… was forced to leave the country because of the civil war. Since then her family has moved to Botswana, England, …
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
… Forces in 1942 to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II and, on returning home, became a member of the …
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… the Portuguese and the Ndongo were engaged in a full blown war. From the 1580s Portugal was in constant war with the Kingdom of Ndongo in an effort to…
EventLord. Roberts arrives at the Cape
… of the British forces in South Africa during the Second Anglo Boer War . … 3 December 2013]| SAHO South African War 1899-1902 Second Anglo-Boer War [online]…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
… The Battle of Chrissiesmeer (Lake Chrissie) during Anglo-Boer War 2 started with an attack by General Louis Botha on the … Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.|…
PlaceCanadian Monument, Bloemfontein
… to the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Second Anglo Boer war. … rans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/overseas/south-african-war/bloemfontein …
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
… Woodstock and District Six. After the outbreak of World War II, Kodesh joined the Union Defence Force and was deployed in Ethiopia, Libya and Italy. As war…
BiographyFred Carneson
… he enlisted in the army to fight in the Second World War. From 1938 to 1945, he served as radio officer and saw … injured at the Battle of El Alamein. It was…
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… OFS President M.T. Steyn. Later, when the South African War broke out in October 1899, Hetzog's life changed … forces in Kimberley. Just before the Boers'…
BiographyElijah H. Mdolomba
… to a loyalist African army unit in Natal, and during World War I he served in France with an African labor battalion. In …
EventAlfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Province
… role in events leading up to the Second South African War (Anglo-Boer War 2). He assisted in negotiating a peace treaty that …
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… months of 1918 and the beginning of 1919. The First World War, while not the direct cause of its outbreak, contributed … included the death of 26 000 women…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… of humanity' to benefit from 'the civilising influence of Anglo Saxon rule' . In 1929, an Australian anthropologist … Aboriginal population, which they…
BiographyGeorge Edward Peake
… as a bricklayer. After serving in the navy in World War II , he became an active member of the Building Workers' … People's Organisation, served in the navy…
BiographyFrances Herman Gow
… Atlanta,Georgia.He enlisted in the American army in World War One and fought inFrance,then returned to the U.Sand …
BiographyPaul Herman Robinson
… such as The Wall and Tuturano Times . After the war he returned to The Natal Mercury where he worked as …
BiographyMichael Hathorn
… Margaret Cormack, a medical Student at Wits, and after the war, decided to do medicine as well. He and Margaret worked …
EventGeneral De Wet is defeated by British forces
… At the height of the South African War 1899-1902 (Anglo-Boer War), General Christiaan Rudolph De … Anglo Boer War Museum , ‘Anglo Boer War Museum and Women’s…
BiographyRay E. Phillips
… active in South Africa for four decades following World War I . He participated in the Joint Council movement and was …
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… During Anglo-Boer War 2 (also called South African War) between the two former Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange … Source: Carver:…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
… in his compositions. At the outbreak of the South African War in 1899 he returned to Natal””mostly on foot, since the … With the scarcity of building…
BiographyMary Agnes Stainbank
… to the buying public of the day. During the Second World War, Stainbank worked in a military drawing office. After war service, she was appointed Head of the…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
… leaders, hoped and believed that Hitler would win the war. When Goldreich's teacher distributed the German … way.Goldreich moved to Israel to fight in the…
The Battle of Ulundi, decisive battle during the Zulu War, takes place with the British forces gaining the upper hand and Cetsh
… The Battle of Ulundi, decisive battle during the Zulu War, takes place with the British forces gaining the upper …
Tjaart van der Walt, frontier farmer and field commandant who played an important role in the third frontier war against the co
… who played an important role in the third frontier war against the co …
Allan Lewis (66), first official SA war artist and portrait painter of Sir Winston Churchill and Gen. J.C. Smuts, dies in Stell
… Allan Lewis (66), first official SA war artist and portrait painter of Sir Winston Churchill and …
The Korean War breaks out. Nearly 90,000 North Korean soldiers and hundreds of Russian-built T-34 tanks cross the border into S
… The Korean War breaks out. Nearly 90,000 North Korean soldiers and …
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, whose war crimes trial before the Special Court of Sierra Leone is to be held in the
… Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, whose war crimes trial before the Special Court of Sierra Leone is …