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PlaceRailway Administration Building, bounded by Maitland-, Hanger, St Andrew and Harvey Streets, Bloemfontein
… March 1900 at the Battle of Paardeberg during the Second Boer War, the Station became a major point of strategic …
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… recommended an Afrikaner homeland to be centred on the old Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. In …
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… by Marthinus Pretorius , son of Andries Pretorius , (the Boer statesman for whom the City was named after). Then … treaties like the Peace of Vereeniging…
PlaceRed Location Museum
… which are rusted a deep red colour. These were part of a Boer concentration camp in Uitenhage and moved in 1900's, to …
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
History of Cato ManorCato Manor was established in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and is situated 5km west of the Durban city centre. The Township was known for its…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Strikes took place at Impala Platinum in Bophuthatswana, Anglo American’s Bank Colliery, at various mines in the … the next day a further 300,000 observed…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… a trust, as well as through generous sponsorship from both Anglo-American and the City of Johannesburg. Major … 'Images of Wood' (1989), 'A decade of…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… at 900 whites and 960 blacks. When WWI broke out, some Boer leaders seized the occasion to mount a rebellion. The war saw the Boer community divided in two:…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… Upon his release, he again asserted that he was a ‘boer warrior’ fighting for the survival of the Afrikaner …
PlaceBoys High School, Pretoria
… for very long owing to the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899. At the time, the building served as a …
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
Flora Nwapa - remembered today as Africa’s “literary foremother” - was born on [1]January 13, 1931 in Oguta, located in eastern Nigeria. She was the eldest of…
PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
… to blow up the Artillery Barracks and magazine by the Boer's during british rule.The incedent was averted by A sentry who observed a Boer in a suspicious…
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… Schweizer-Reneke, is where we ended and the third Boer War, another South African war, will start here again. … Boers and this had resulted in the…
PlaceArtillery Road Barracks at the H.Q. of South African Defence
… to blow up the Artillery Barracks and magazine by the Boer's during the British rule. The incident was averted by a sentry who had observed a Boer in a…
PlaceSteynsrus, Free State Province
… the centre of this Historic Town. (This was needed for the Boer Folk to come worship.) The corner stone to this NG …
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… her exposure of conditions in the concentration camps for Boer women and children during the Second South African War. … “to feed, clothe, shelter and rescue…
ArchiveA story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018
The death of Sam Nzima, the man who took the photograph that came to symbolise all that was wrong with apartheid and how it would be opposed, offers a moment…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… A delegation of businessmen, including Gavin Relly, Anglo American Corporation chairman, and Tony Bloom, Premier …
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… General Christiaan Rudolph de Wet was a Boer soldier and statesman, regarded by Afrikaner …
The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners
… an exaggerated kind, in which the hero was the Afrikaner Boer. He was pictured, first of all, trying to build a …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… of the 1950s. Included were: ‘ the brutality of the Boer, the terrible farm conditions, the phenomenal hypocrisy …
PlaceIsandlwana Battlefield Site, Nqutu
… . The Battle of Isandlwana was the first engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War , on 22 January 1879. Umzinyathi District has …
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… law. The African workers also rise. In 1902, as the Anglo-Boer war ends, there is a labour shortage as Africans refuse …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… and in particular against the consolidation of British-Boer domination as evidenced in the formation, two years … Speaking from the people`s daily experience…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… the discovery of gold, the Area was made up of various Boer Farms after which many of today's Suburbs are named: … back to around 1851 and this was around…
PlaceDelgoa Bay Now Known as Maputo Bay, Mozambique
Delgoa Bay is a Bay on the South East coast of Mozambique, East Africa, near the South African border. Discovered by António do Campo, a member of Vasco da…
PlaceHarrismith, Free State
… Blockhouses and a Military Cemetery. (There are also Boer, Brit and sandstone Architecture to be seen.) Many … Gate Highlands National Park , Basotho…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
Examination of the black reaction to apartheid during the period 1948-1973 is topical and should help us to understand what is now happening in South Africa…
PlaceKruger House Museum
… struggle for freedom from the British during the Second Boer War (1899 - 1902). Both the Kruger National Park and the …
PlaceRobert Sobukwe Town, was called Graaf-Reinet
… viewing, rock art, fossil study, township walkabouts and Boer War monuments. A visit to the area would be incomplete …