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… The Complex was founded around 1905, just after the 2nd Anglo Boer War by the British Army to garrison the City of Pretoria, and …

… Michael (‘Mikia’) Matlala took part in Wold War 1. According to his family, he was banished, from …

… May 1915. He was named after Christiaan Frederik Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his father, Jozua Naudé.  Naudé …

… a nearby White settler. British East Africa during World War I In 1912, having completed his mission school education, … in charge of the building programme at Thogoto. As World War I progressed, able bodied Kikuyu were forced into work by … wished to do, would damage the culture as a whole. World War II Effectively cut off in Britain from the KCA (which had …

… four sons: Andrew, Peter, Mark and Richard.During World War II Collins served as a chaplain in the Royal Air Force.  After the war, he founded the Christian Action organization  in 1946, … about social issues, he was one of four founders of War on Want, an organisation formed to fight poverty around …

… of humanity' to benefit from 'the civilising influence of Anglo Saxon rule' . In 1929, an Australian anthropologist … Aboriginal population, which they called The Black War . By 1830 the indigenous Tasmanians were almost … interesting Negritoid people, with the widest nasal index ever recorded and shorter and broader heads than the …

… proposed rack railway were delayed by the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War. In 1912 the Cape Town City Council commissioned an …

… the Sabie Game Reserve, the second reserve in Africa. The Anglo-Boer War halted further development of the reserve, but the …

… two presidents, to assist the Transvaal in the event of a war with England. The South African War, or Anglo-Boer War, broke out on 11 October 1899, and Kruger, now 74, …

… Despite the official announcement of the end of the Shaba War by the Zairian government last year, Moroccan troops are …

… who fought on the side of the British during the S.A. War and who received th …

… in as head of state and pledge to restore peace to the war-weary W …

… World War 1 ends with Germany and the Allies signing an armistice …

… is killed in the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War in which the …

… 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 …

… in Libya in the biggest US air strike since the Vietnam War. Libya …

… is where the battle of Diamond Hill took place during the Anglo Boer War. It used to be out in the sticks and people only passed …

… been divided into two British colonies and two independent Boer republics, which were all unified into one country after the Anglo Boer War. The two wings of the building are joined, symbolizing …

… been divided into two British colonies and two independent Boer republics, which were all unified into one country after the Anglo Boer War. The two wings of the building are joined, symbolizing …

… in navigation and engineering, with service in the war zone in North Africa. He also served as an actuarial … and statistician to the Governor General's National War Fund until 1949 when, having qualified as an actuary, he …

… colonial city of Durban. Wentworth was a converted World War 2 military transit camp that was reserved for Coloured … which became known as the Magoo’s Bar bombing. This act of war where civilians were killed and injured still stands for …

… over the border into Mozambique and take command of the war against white rule. Yet the guerrilla-leader-in-waiting … gathered. She leaves behind two sons, Jonah Hull, a war correspondent for Al Jazeera television, and Niko …

… in Natal before serving in the Royal Navy. After World War II he became a reporter for the Rand Daily Mail . After …

… African wars from 1877 to 1902.Including: the Transkei War, 1877 ; Basutoland War, 1880-1881; Bechuanaland War, 1897; and the Anglo Boer War 1899 - 1902. It was declared a National Monument …

… became the site for a large internment camp during World War II, with up to 2,000 Italian and German prisoners of war … and Kimberley meant that it became involved in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Blockhouses, which served as defensive …

… Valleifontein, a neighbouring farmer, took over the farm. Boer commando raids forced local communities such as the … post at Rooigrond in 1873, but was driven out during the Anglo Boer War. A fraction of the Rooigrond region was ‘ceded’ to Boer …

… The Boer Republics, and the Basotho kingdom (a case study) … Moshoeshoe expected them to support him and his people in war. In this way, Moshoeshoe built up his chiefdom from 25 … and the Vaal rivers. This gave rise to the independent Boer Republic of the Orange Free State. No African chiefdoms …

… career was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War , in which he served with the South African forces in … by the Germans at Tobruk, and spent the rest of the war, apart from a few days of freedom following an escape, in … was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) after the war for his relief work among prisoners. In 1948, General …

… Klip. The stones were laid during the South African War by members of the Wiltshire Regiment who were then … built by British troops stationed in the area during the Anglo-Boer war, perhaps as a direction marker for troops taking …