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PlaceAmajuba, a Mountain in Natal
… of Newcastle. The scene of a Historic Battle in the First Anglo-Boer War. The name is derived from Zulu and means 'hill of many … Peter E Raper https://www…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony and the two Boer Republics: The Transvaal and the Orange Free State). … refers to the Boers who kept fighting…
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… Women and Children Distress Fund to collect money for Boer families. As the secretary of the South African … South African families, both Black and White,…
PlaceRichmond
… 1,602 were literate On 25 June 1901, during the Second Anglo Boer War , Boer forces under General P H Kritzinger attacked …
PlaceRhodes
… a party of Boers occupied the village during the Second Anglo Boer War. On 2 December 1899 they were joined by a second group …
PlaceAmsterdam, Mkhondo Local Municipality
… and out of gratitude for Dutch sympathy, during the First Anglo Boer War (1880-1881). …
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… After the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War), which had started on 11 October … meetings with them in their respective territories. The 60 Boer…
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… During the first week of Anglo-Boer War 2 , Boer forces besieged the small town of Mafeking (now … Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology,…
EventZulu army returns to Nongoma
… to arm by Col. Bottomley to assist the British during the Anglo-Boer War, marched back to Nongoma. Two Zulus were killed in … Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo…
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… completed in February 1989, just before the South African War(Anglo-Boer War II, 1899-1902). On 16 February 1898, the first …
EventErmelo is founded
… to a single standing house by the British during the Anglo-Boer War 2. Ermelo is the crossroads of three national highways, …
EventEdward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West
… to South Africa in 1902 with the British forces during the Anglo-Boer war. At the end of the war Roworth decided to stay in South …
BiographyJohn O’ Malley
… at Jeppe Boys High in Johannesburg. By this time the World War II had been broken out. O'Malley thus joined the South … where he flew photo-reconnaissance…
BiographyEli Weinberg
… Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917 as a child, and this … led to his socialist political…
BiographyRichard Msimang
… to Britain. Directly after outbreak of the First World War he was, however, a member of the SANNC deputation that … to assure the government of black people…
BiographySarah Carneson
… worked full-time for the League Against Fascism and War in Johannesburg, and then full-time for the CPSA … on leave from the North African campaign. With the…
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… forced removal, which ultimately resulted in the Malaboch war, with the chief and his subjects defending their … his release by the British authorities in…
BiographyCloete Breytenbach
… South Africa. Notable assignments included the Yom Kippur War in Israel in 1973, Vietnam in 1975, Angola from 1976 to … – The Fairest Cape and The Terror…
BiographyEve Hall
… a Jewish father and a German mother. When the Second World War broke out, her father was on a visit to South Africa, … to wear) on her daughter’s clothes…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… The Complex was founded around 1905, just after the 2nd Anglo Boer War by the British Army to garrison the City of Pretoria, and …
World War 1 ends with Germany and the Allies signing an armistice in a railroad car at Compiegne, France. “At the 11th hour of
… World War 1 ends with Germany and the Allies signing an armistice …
Sir George Cathcart (60), former governor of the Cape, is killed in the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War in which the
… is killed in the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War in which the …
Sierra Leone’s military leader, Johnny Paul Koroma, is sworn in as head of state and pledge to restore peace to the war-weary W
… in as head of state and pledge to restore peace to the war-weary W …
Despite the official announcement of the end of the Shaba War by the Zairian government last year, Moroccan troops are to be ai
… Despite the official announcement of the end of the Shaba War by the Zairian government last year, Moroccan troops are …
US attempts an air strike at Colonel Muammar Kadhaffi’s home in Libya in the biggest US air strike since the Vietnam War. Libya
… in Libya in the biggest US air strike since the Vietnam War. Libya …
The UN Security Council declares the Congo River open again after two years and six months of war. The closure has affected foo
… Congo River open again after two years and six months of war. The closure has affected foo …
World War 1: Gen. Louis Botha leaves for South West Africa to take control of the Union troops who would conquer the area from
… World War 1: Gen. Louis Botha leaves for South West Africa to take …
Death of Herman Albrecht, a South African soldier who fought on the side of the British during the S.A. War and who received th
… who fought on the side of the British during the S.A. War and who received th …
EventFive power stations are blown up as tensions rise during WWII
… destabilise the Rand gold mines. During the Second World War supporters of the Axis powers (Germany, Japan) came into … of the latter country's support for…
BiographyJacob Dumdum Nyaose
… the African Bakers and Confectioners Union. During World War II, he led his union through a number of successful …