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ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
The Mfecane - known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho - was a period of profound political, social, and demographic transformation in southern Africa…
ArticleZulu
… The Zulu never regained their independence ( see Anglo-Zulu Wars ). Natal received "Colonial government" in …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede On Easter Sunday 1944 a group of young political activists gathered at the Bantu Men's…
PlaceKroonstad
It's name being symbolic of royalty (“Kroon” is Dutch for crown), Kroonstad has very humble beginnings. It was named after Voorktrekker Sarel Cilliers' horse,…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… become rent tenants on land owned by land companies or on Boer farms. This meant that they paid rent to the landowner … want ground'. Resentment grows…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… as trackers, herdsmen and shepherds. Some even joined boer commandos and attacked other Khoikhoi groups. The boers …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre of the Hottentots'
… liberal apologists, like Macmillan, author of "Bantu. Boer and Briton," who hail him as the "Defender of the … missionaries). While the trek oxen were…
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… there can be a purely national development of capitalism. Anglo American, Liberty Life, Sanlam, Rembrandt and Old … centres. For example, the biggest…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… J. H. Hofmeyer, South Africa; W. M. Macmillan, Bantu, Boer and Briton; J. M. Tinley, The Native Labour Problem of … British imperialism, a claim that was a…
ArchiveExtracts of 3 Interviews from the 1956 Women’s Anti-Pass March
… passes. We were all enthusiastic to get there and see this Boer bass and tell him that we are not going to carry those …
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… attitude towards the Natives. The record of British and Boer Imperialism is too black and consistent for the Native …
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… three days after the declaration of South African (Anglo-Boer) War, W.K.L. Dickson (who had perfected the motion …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… Malema in 2010 not to sing the struggle song “Kill the boer, kill the farmer”. Mokaba had also sung the song in …
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…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… mining interests, particularly with Harry Oppenheimer’s Anglo-American. Together with the government, Anglo-American helped ESCOM expropriate the VFTPC for …
PlaceValley of a Thousand Hills
The Thousand Hills experience is to KwaZulu-Natal what the Garden Route is to the Cape. It is an area of great peace and tranquillity, affirmed by the fact…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… his plan to bring a delegation of businessmen, including Anglo American head Gavin Relly, to Zambia. But soon after, … Relly returned to SA amid criticism…
Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - transcript
… which have been notified by the Commander in Chief to the Boer Generals, and which shall be tried by Court Martial …
ArchiveFederation
… which have been notified by the Commander in Chief to the Boer Generals, and which shall be tried by Court Martial …
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… to commemorate the Jameson Raid of 1895/ 96, in which the Boer Commandos managed to prevent the Jameson’s invasion on 2 …
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
… William Newnham , a teacher and cleric'. Lucas was Anglo-Irish, the son of an Under Secretary for Ireland , and …
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… ANC leaders met a group of whites in Lusaka, led by Anglo-American chairman Gavin Relly. Their message to the ANC …
Griqua community
… and ammunition. Trouble started when Kok arrested a Boer accused of ill-treating his people, and the trekker …
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Pallo Jordan, 15th April 2003, South Africa
South African Communist Party 2003 Chris Hani Memorial Lecture. 15th April 2003. Delivered: by Z. Pallo Jordan. 15th April 2003. Transcribed: by…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… volunteers to serve in the British army in the Second Anglo-Boer War . When the war ends, he stays on and settles in … in South Africa which calls for one…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s most stirring speeches
… desert. I am the grandchild who lays fresh flowers on the Boer graves at St Helena and the Bahamas, who sees in the …
PlaceVissershok Farm
… rowdy weekend parties for VOC officials'. During the Anglo-Dutch Wars, which took place over three separate …
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… In the South African War of 1899 to 1902, the two Boer Republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, were … fought for independence for over a century…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… at the turn of the century and particularly during the Anglo Boer War. He became Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony … As a member of the Bar, Bram's…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… north, the greater the danger from the weakness of the Boer States. The "Free State" could for the time being be … or the British in this question of the…