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Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… Coldstream Guards in London, following our return from the Anglo-Boer War. Soon after my arrival I was listening to a Labour … There was a rush to South…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… 1886 and 1888. Edmund Bourke became a burger of the Boer Republic and was a personal friend of President Kruger. … and equipment through Lourenço Marques …
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… discrimination was at a peak at the turn-of-the-century. Anglo-Boer tensions were at a height and Municipal elections were … of the original Dutch settlers ’…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaThis feature has explored the devastating changes that industrialisation brought for the majority of people…
PlaceCameroon
Cameroon is sometimes referred to as a “true African crossroads” not only because of its geographical position, but also because of the country's great variety…
PlaceWitwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
… British. They crossed the Vaal rivers and setup two new Boer Republics ; The Orange Free state and the Vaal Boer Republic electing their own presidents.-…
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… bears reflecting that before 1884 the area was settled by Boer farmers on only nine farms in this area, dominated by …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… The AWB’s intention was to establish a homeland for the Boer ‘volk’ (people). The AWB functioned as a semi-secret …
Polokwane the Segregated city
Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in the…
Contact, conflict and dispossession on the Cape eastern or northern frontiers in the nineteenth century
… ancestors were from different groups - some were a mix of Boer and Khoikhoi, or slaves and Khoikhoi, or Boer and slaves. They spoke Dutch (Afrikaans). D. The…
PlaceVlakfontein Monument, Roodepoort
… to commemorate the Jameson Raid of 1895/ 96, in which the Boer Commandos managed to prevent the Jameson’s invasion on 2 …
PlaceTransvaal Province
… The region was annexed by the British in 1877, but a Boer rebellion restored it in 1881. Following the Second Boer War (1899-1902) . The South African…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… military historian Max Hastings as a "rehabilitated Boer" and one of the British Empire's "foremost heroes", had graduated from anti-British foe during the…
PlaceGriquatown
… to 1,244. On 17 November 1899 Griquatown was captured by Boer forces and probably remainedin their hands … Charles Warren entered the village. On 27 October…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… early 1800s. But by mid century there was a rudimentary Boer republic in place, the previous black inhabitants were … early 1800s. But by mid century there…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
On October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front…
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… government withdrew the 20-year lease stipulated in the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936. Britain refused to withdraw …
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… General Louis Botha left to rally the remnants of the Boer army. Botha had been persuaded to continue the war by …
Zastron
… the founding of Zastron that the Free State Volksraad (Boer parliament) waited six years to recognize the town. The …
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… no longer beneficial for their profits. Big companies like Anglo American began to suggest that economic growth required …
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… of humanity' to benefit from 'the civilising influence of Anglo Saxon rule' . In 1929, an Australian anthropologist …
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… discriminatory practices established in colonies and Boer republics. In order to understand the Act's core … how land alienation took place in British…
A new class struggle
… to Spencer Tyron, in the Zulu War of 1879 and in the Boer War, the Whites were capable of mustering a thousand … inhabitants of South Africa. Coming so soon…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… Indeed, the Afrikaners had already been defeated in the Boer War (1899-1902) , but the British acted to appease the … relations already existing in the…
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… Certainly the Vereeniging Treaty signed at the end of the Anglo-Boer War in 1902 disappointed and flabbergasted the African …
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… biggest shareholder in De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is Anglo American PLC. Today the company remains the biggest …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940 - 1949 1940 Within a year of his joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), Dr Yusuf Dadoo's role as an activist in…
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… in the characters migration may have occurred during the Anglo-Boer War. The garrison town that was established in … Herein lay the source of the women's…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… an epidemic of plague swept the Cape Colony during the Anglo-Boer war, the experience with smallpox in the 1890’s was put …
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
… long distance from Cape Town to Somerset West. In 1987, Anglo-American Farms Limited (AmFarms) bought Vergelegen from …