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BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… in North Africa and Italy as a lance corporal. After the war, he resumed his medical studies and qualified with a … Foundation and of the Medical Campaign…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… months of 1918 and the beginning of 1919. The First World War, while not the direct cause of its outbreak, contributed … were constantly being moved between…
EventCetshwayo, travels to London to request that he should be restored as a king of the Zulu Kingdom
… Cape after losing the crucial Battle of Ulundi, during the Anglo Zulu War against Sir Frere and his men. Cetshwayo undertook the … flee to Eshowe, where he…
BiographyJacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
… name a few. Also during her time in New Zealand, the Rugby war broke out. Should the Springboks visit New Zealand or … brought me to New Zealand at the time…
BiographyPeter Clarke
… I was 15 years old. A laatjie. This was during the war-time, in 1944. After the war he found himself unemployed for two weeks and then the …
BiographySonja Schlesin
… at the age of 55. It appears that she may have joined the war effort in an administrative capacity, probably in the … , led by previous antagonist Jan Smuts,…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… has been involved in through the centuries including the Anglo-Boer Wars, the Anglo-Zulu War, World War I and II, the conflict in South West Africa …
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… a regular basis to build up contacts. That September World War Two broke out. Abrahams heard that there was a ship … of the crew on a freighter during the…
Thomas G. Karis
… their surname from Katritses to Karis at the end of World War II. His father ran a restaurant but went bankrupt in the …
BiographyKerr Alexander
… Kerr from serving in the army during the First World War. Instead, in August 1915, he successfully applied for the …
BiographyPresident Seretse Khama
… civil strife in Africa, but Botswana remained free from war and corruption. In his last years he played an important …
BiographyFreda Levson
… interest in her Scottish roots. At the outbreak of World War II she volunteered as an escort on a ship taking evacuee …
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
… cricketer and a much decorated soldier of the Second World War), made their way to Cape Town with the idea of earning …
BiographyHarry Snitcher
… He was a founder member of the League against Fascism and War and campaigned actively against the right wing Francisco …
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
… 4th from the right, in a march to protest against the war in Natal, 1990. Photograph by Omar Badsha. In 1991 he …
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
… as they could not condone the preaching of conflict and war. When he refused to do so he was excommunicated. As a …
BiographyAndimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo
… for the South African Defence Force in the Second World War between 1942 and 1943. He taught at St. Mary’s Mission …
EventGen. De la Rey captures Lord Methuen
… Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Jacobus "Koos" De la Rey defeated and captured … here to read about Black involvement in the Second Anglo-Boer War. … Cloete, P.G. …
PlaceStaats Model School, Van der Walt Street, Pretoria
… when, for a time it was used to House Prisoners-of-War, during the Anglo-Boer War . Single-storied red brick with ochre … famous artist J.H. Pierneef…
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… by Boer forces on 16 October 1899 during the Second Anglo Boer War . Today the Bridge is named the Hennie Steyn Bridge. … deep historical significance,…
EventThe Battle of Ulundi begins
… The Battle of Ulundi was the decisive battle during the Anglo-Zulu War. It took place on the 4th July 1879 and marked the end of the Anglo-Zulu War, as well…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… with neighbouring countries, he took South Africa to war in Angola, ending the policy of détente and plunging the … time, in 1944, it was plain that Germany…
BiographyZolile Malindi
… did not remain at the Savoy long. Towards the end of World War II, he moved to a better paying job at Baumann. Later he …
PlaceElizabeth le Roux Hostel, Bloemfontein
… the Elizabeth le Roux Hostel was laid in 1899. During the Anglo-Boer War the building was used as a hospital and in 1906 it was … the Elizabeth le Roux…
EventGeneral Koos de la Rey, buried in Lichtenburg amid a very tense atmosphere.
… known as Koos de la Rey, a Boer general during the Second Anglo-Boer War who is widely regarded as being one of the strongest … had been killed deliberately…
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord … Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball…
EventBuilding of Delagoa Bay railway line is completed
… line was completed a few years after the end of the first Anglo-Boer War (also called Anglo-Transvaal War) and the restoration of the Transvaal …
BiographyFranco Frescura
… a Doctoral research programme, substantially funded by the Anglo and De Beers Group Chairman’s Fund, and in 1986, he was …
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… Indian in Natal, to read his report click here . The Anglo-Zulu wars In the 1870s settler and colonial … Note: Conflicting start dates for the beginning of…
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
… take up arms against the Boer republics during the Second Anglo-Boer War. Col. H.B. Bottomley of the Imperial White Horse warned … Click here to read more…