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BiographyAlan Robert Lipman
… he served in the South African Air Force during World War II, Lipman studied Architecture at the University of …
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… The Military Museum has many interesting exhibits from the Anglo Boer War, World War I, World War II and the struggle against Apartheid. These …
EventBritish reinforcements arrive at Ladysmith
… at Ladysmith after a siege of 4 months, during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Ladysmith was not the only town to be under …
Community histories of Rustenburg
… of Rustenburg. On that day an important meeting of the War Council took place in the vicinity, giving official … 1884 to 1899 with the outbreak of the South…
EventPresident Paul Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner meet in Bloemfontein to discuss the franchise question
… 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…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… his studies Oppenheimer returned to Johannesburg to join Anglo American Corporation which was founded by his father in … served under the Fourth South…
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 Africa. He settled in …
EventAfrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… stand against British interference, died during the Second Anglo-Boer War in an inferno of lyddite and shrapnel. Six months prior to the start of the South…
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
… proposed rack railway were delayed by the outbreak of the Anglo Boer War. In 1912 the Cape Town City Council commissioned an … option but the project was…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… Boer scout and commanding officer during the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War) was executed by a firing squad beside an open grave in …
EventNatal Football Union founded
… The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the subsequent war with the South African Republics brought a new influx of …
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…
PlaceAirlie, a Railway Station near Waterval Onder
… was killed in the Battle of Diamond Hill during the Second Anglo-Boer War, on 11 June 1900. …
PlacePearson Conservatorium and Prince Alfred’s Guard Memorial, St Georges Park, Port Elizabeth
… 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…
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… Mafikeng was besieged by the Boer forces during the second Anglo Boer War (South African War) . At the time of the siege, people … (specifically the Barolong…
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…
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… at the Cape prior to 1688. Smit, a Boer general in the Anglo-Transvaal War and Vice-President of the South African Republic (SAR), … Majuba Hill, the most…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
… called the Central Books. During the 1980s, when the cold war was at its peak in Africa, he administered the …
BiographyStephanie Urdang
… in Guinea-Bissau (1979) and, And Still They Dance: Women, War, and the Struggle for Change in Mozambique (1989), which …
BiographyStephanie Kemp
… arsing from the family's experiences in the South African War, worked as a principal of the Swartland Laerskool. Her …
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… in his life. Arrested for participation in anti-Vietnam War campus demonstrations, Coetzee had to forfeit US …
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… Commander-in-Chief of the British forces during the second Anglo Boer War (1989-1902). He received the local rank of general around … was extreme in his…
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 …
EventPaul Kruger is elected president
… as a British colony. In 1880 the Boers launched a war of independence, which was known as the First Anglo-Boer War or First South African War. On 27 February…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… occasions. The union ceases to exist because of the Anglo-Boer War, but is re-established in 1902. 1890 March, The … and later has two branches in Cape Town…
PlaceDonkerhoek
… 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 … Hikes. Or it gives the…
EventLouis Botha becomes Union’s first Prime Minister
… the Vryheid district in 1897 and also Boer general during Anglo-Boer War 2 , Louis Botha, was instructed by Governor-General …
EventBoer negotiators travelled from Vereeniging to Pretoria to present their proposals
… the Boer republics. This happened towards the end of the Anglo-Boer War II which broke out in October 1899. It ended with the … (Accessed: 19 April 2013)|…
PlaceAmsterdam, Mkhondo Local Municipality
… and out of gratitude for Dutch sympathy, during the First Anglo Boer War (1880-1881). …
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…