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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…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
Evolution refers to the slow process of human adaptation over millions of years. The roots of humanity are believed to lie in South Africa, where the earliest…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
On October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front…
PlaceKenya
Kenya is a country in East Africa with a population of 44 million people and the largest economy of the region. The early inhabitants were mostly migrants from…
ArchiveNUM, FEDTRAW, rural, parliament and miscellaneous
… Different articles on NUM, as Anglo American Corporation yesterday appeal to the National …
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
… During his career he had been chairman of both the Anglo-American Corporation and De Beers Consolidated Mines …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… The Union brought together the defeated independent Boer republics and British colonies. For the most part during … imported all of Botswana’s soda ash. A…
PlaceElaandslaagte, a Mission Station in Kwa Zulu Natal
… attractions but because a major battle of the Second Boer War took place here. In fact, it was one of the few … the recent rains'. The war began two days…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… Political party in South Africa has called for a statue of Boer leader Paul Kruger to be pulled down and replaced by one … speech for singing anti-White…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… On 31 May 1910, after negotiations between the white Boer Republics and Britain, an act passed in the British …
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… On 31 May 1910, after negotiations between the white Boer Republics and Britain, an act passed in the British …
PlaceOld English Fort, Marabastad
… This fort was the site of a Boer siege in 1880, where 140 soldiers were held for 104 …
EventKgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo) dies
… Transvaal (now Limpopo) who led his followers in the Boer-Gagananwa war of 1894, dies in Bochum-Blouberg, Northern …
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… Businessmen protested against what they felt to be the Boer Transvaal Government's discriminatory attitude to the …
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… from British-controlled territory. Some 12,000 of these Boer emigrants moving Northward from the Cape crossed the … to the Transvaal when Great Britain…
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…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… in present-day Zimbabwe . Southern interior: role of Boer, Kora and Griqua raiders The Boer raiders were frontier farmers who from the Cape Colony. … Lesotho…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… Towards an African Literature ii, Dr. A.C. Jordan. Anglo-Saxon Dreams, Michael Picardie. High Fence, Michael …
EventEgypt is placed under martial law in response to widespread riots against the British
… approved the unilateral official cancellation of the Anglo-Egyptian Alliance Treaty of 1936 and appointed Crown …
EventNatal Football Union founded
… The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the subsequent war with the South …
EventThe Battle of Gingindlovu
… The Anglo-Zulu War Battle of Gingindlovu took place on 2 February …
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… L T Dow, who was fatally wounded while serving in the 1st Anglo Boer War. Francis Gibson, a shipwright apprentice of HMS …
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
Abstract: Many South African Jews such as Eli Weinberg were heavily involved in the country’s anti-apartheid movement and faced exile as a result; other Jews…
PlaceFourteen Streams
… Fourteen Streams to Kimberley, and the following day a Boer force under field-cornet Bosman marched into the … the village was returned to the Cape on 6 May…
Event5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egyptian troops
… and Britain and France came on the same day when the Anglo-French ultimatum was handed to Egypt and Israel before …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… Men rent beds, not houses, in the Golden City.' After the Anglo-Boer War established that Britain was to control the economy … they served. Interest groups…
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…
EventCecil John Rhodes, South African statesman, is born
… was an ardent believer in colonialism, declaring that the Anglo-Saxon race was the first race and therefore should …
EventMining Magnate Oppenheimer dies
… magnate, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who founded the Anglo American Corporation, died in Johannesburg at the age …