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The search for Peter Johnson’s story
In 1975, Peter Johnson, joined the ranks of the uMkhonto we Sizwe and disappeared into exile. Nearly a decade later, on the 26 October 1984, Johnson, now known…
EventEmily Hobhouse receives a reply to her request to be included in the Ladies Commission
… the British concentration camps in South Africa built for Boer women and children during the Second Boer War. … South African History Online timelines. Boer…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… about 30,000 indentured workers in Natal, and before the Anglo-Boer War a few thousand had moved to the Transvaal. … the first campaign After the victory of…
ArticleNewspaper article: "The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", Thursday, November 22, 1860
… "The past week will long be memorable amongst Anglo Natalians. At last, after the discussion of years and …
ArchiveLetter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention to Dr Boraine
… of the Black Peoples Convention, to Dr Alex Boraine of Anglo American Corporation appealling for financial …
PlaceAngola
… Angola [cxxxii] . In the 1920s there was a great influx of Boer settlers from South Africa, but large scale settlement …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
Traditional authorities were indispensable in the application of the provisions in the 1913 Natives Land Act in areas of rural South Africa designated as …
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
… Church. The English Fort and Armoury: Remnants of the Anglo-Boer War (ABW), 1899-1902, if you are interested in ABW … it is understandable how this Fort…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
The Postal system The act of sending letters from one person to another developed soon after the invention of writing, however, the creation of a formal…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 17 February 1977, Volume 108
… Willem Hendrik du Toit, Personnel Consultant for Anglo American Corporation and others, to the Commission of …
Document 37 - The Bill of Rights
The original numbering, as it appears in the South African Constitution, has been retained here, hence it begins at Article 7. 7. RIGHTS 1. This Bill of…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… of the Transvaal. Before 1886 it was a poor, struggling Boer republic but ten years later, it was the richest gold … system was turned into a cheap one. The…
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as ‘Long Cecil’ is test fired for the first time
… Cecil John Rhodes, was test fired for the first time at Boer forces during the Siege of Kimberley. Rhodes, who had … round landed and burst in the middle of…
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
South African photographer David Goldblatt (b. 1930) describes himself as “a self-appointed observer and critic into the society in which I was born,” in a…
PlaceHawston
Close to Hermanus, the town of Hawston with its long, white unspoilt beach lies cosily between the sea and the mountain. It is thought that long ago the Quena …
EventZach de Beer is elected as leader of the PFP
… The 59 year old executive of Anglo American, Dr Zach de Beer, was elected as leader of the …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… material on the Transvaal Background information Trekker (Boer) parties went to the Transvaal as part of the Great Trek … working for the Boers. It soon…
Under the influence of Dumile Feni’s 'African Guernica' by Sharlene Khan (The Conversation), 07 September 2016
In our regular series, “Under the influence”, we ask experts to share what they believe are the most influential works of art in their field. Here, artist…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
Introduction It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… Ownership of the diamond fields was contested by the Boer republics of the; Orange Free State and the Transvaal … President Andries Pretorius declared the…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… via officers mess of General French’s staff in the Anglo Boer War, back to family Home, through several changes in … Tudor style” and the Interior Décor,…
PlaceNiewoudtville
… it as a kerkplaats (church farm). On 20 June 1901 Boer forces entered the village and ransacked its post … to its establishment. Five months later, on 25…
PlacePosthuys
… residence, until it was restored with funds from the Anglo American Corporation. Evidence exists that the site … additions to the structure and in turn sold…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
Late Pleistocene (Early and Middle Stone Age) 800 000 years Artefacts in a…
EventThe Battle of Kambula takes place
… On 29 March 1879, the Anglo-Zulu War Battle of Kambula took place. The battle …
Gandhi, Tamils and the Satyagraha in South Africa by E.S Reddy
… the British troops in a non-combatant capacity during the Anglo-Boer War and was granted residence in the Transvaal. He went … Africa, was in the ambulance…
EventBritain proclaims Natal a British colonial territory
… the power of the volksraad finally came to an end. In the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 the British defeated the Zulus under … South African History Online, ‘Anglo…
EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… declared war on France in September 1798 and facing an Anglo-Turkish alliance, Napoleon decided the strike first and … army landed at Aboukir, transported…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of 'apartheid’…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… had no vote, nor were white women enfranchised. The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 (also called the South African War) had … not only between black people and…