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WWI: At the end of the war, the Paris Peace Conference accepts the proposal to create the League of Nations. The League was eve
… WWI: At the end of the war, the Paris Peace Conference accepts the proposal to …
Biographyde Villiers Graaff
… 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…
BiographySylvester Stein
… in Natal before serving in the Royal Navy. After World War II he became a reporter for the Rand Daily Mail . After …
PlaceFouriesburg
… in March 1900. Pushing further they trapped the major Boer forces in the Brandwater Basin and with it also the … Burger Monument of the men who lost their…
PlaceWhite Horse Stones, Naval Hill, Bloemfontein
… 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…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… ago I reviewed Rob Eales’ book on Emily Hobhouse and the Boer War published by UCT Press in 2015 (The Compassionate … (the Eales book has been missed) and a…
EventLabram, manufacturer of 'Long Cecil' is killed by shell from 'Long Tom'
… Beers' workshop in Kimberley, was killed by a shell from a Boer 'Long Tom' cannon during the siege of Kimberley. Labram, … when Kimberley was under siege by…
PlaceThe Old Presidency Museum, Bloemfontein
… when the city fell to the British Empire during the Second Anglo-Boer War. A trekboer family with the Surname of Brits settled on …
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… was strongly republican-minded. When the Second World War (WWII) broke out in 1939, the OB opposed South Africa's … that Britain had invaded the Republics…
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… need for more cheap black labour after the Second World War led the South African government to look for migrant … South Africa, mainly from Mozambique and…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… of 1906 (Bhambatha Rebellion) and some also during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. The photograph, with its diagrammatic key and …
EventC James reports that South Africa is a poor market for produce
… produce. He undertook this voyage during the South African War (Anglo-Boer War). As a produce distributor (Providore), he needed to …
PlaceLadysmith
… the early years interestingly, Ladysmith was initially a Boer settlement and was known as the Republic of Klip River. … of the Cape Colony (Lady Smith). The…
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
… (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home and settled with his parents … in Jail. (Poems: banned). Scribe Press (1979…
BiographyDr. Philip Blaaiberg
… Town where he subsequently retired. During the 2nd World War Blaaiberg joined the South African Army Medical Corps and … South African Army Medical Corps…
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… expansion of Johannesburg after the end of the Second Anglo Boer War increased to over twice it's the area to what existed …
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… 1958. Coggin says she became aware of her husband’s Cold War spying activities eight years later in 1966 but chose not … secrets and plans regarding the…
EventSimon Petros Matseke, prominent in African social and political life, dies in Pretoria
… Peter Matseke was born in 1878 in Pretoria. When the Anglo-Boer War broke out, he was drafted as driver for Boer Commandos. …
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… ects.news24.com/impeached-seven-years-of-busisiwe-mkhwebane/index.html accessed 09 April 2024 . Accessed 02 April 2024. … Groenkloof chambers. no date. https…
BiographyBiddy Partridge
… (Women of Africa) Paperback – 1984 A Different Kind of War: From Soweto to Pretoria (1986) The Unbreakable Thread - …
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… keeper of the heritage of Isaac Rosenberg, the First World War poet and artist killed in France on 1 April 1918, his … for new biographies and memorabilia…
EventWomen’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein
… commemorate 26 251 women and children who died during the Anglo-Boer War 2, mainly in British concentration camps. Many … en fratse oor 1000 jaar , Kaapstad:…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… Mzilikazi, who Kruger accused of robbing and plundering Boer migrants. At Klein Buffelshoekthe Boers came upon Chief … leader. The Volksraad, or People’s…
BiographyZubeida Jaffer
… How the Dutch Dealt With the Traumas of the Second World War: Some Lessons for South Africa, in 1995; History of the …
BiographyAnna Tempo
… and set up a house for them in Napier Street. During World War One many young men came into Cape Town when their ships …
BiographyJohn Nyathi Pokela
… controversial remark on his visit to Iraq during Iraq-Iran war when he declared PAC support to Iraq. This was in sharp …
BiographyLionel Rusty Bernstein
… South Africa artillery and served in Italy during World War Two.In 1946 he was among those charged with sedition …
The Lady in White: British Imperial Loyalism and Women’s Volunteerism in Second World War Durban by Jonathan Hyslop (Journal of Natal and Zulu History), 2018
… Imperial Loyalism and Women’s Volunteerism in Second World War Durban by Jonathan Hyslop (Journal of Natal and Zulu …
UDF Poster ‘NO apartheid war: GUGULETHU LANGA TROOPS OUT OF THE TOWNSHIPS’ by End Conscription Campaign (ECC), 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
… https://www.saha.org.za/udf/no_apartheid_war_gugulethu_langa_troops_out_of_the_townships.htm … UDF Poster ‘NO apartheid war: GUGULETHU LANGA TROOPS OUT OF…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… gold at the Rand was the chief cause of the South African War. This is not completely true, as British imperialism was … over all the inhabitants of annexed…