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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators are handed the final British proposals. Gen Smuts immediately deletes “ACT OF SURRENDER” on
ArchiveThe expresion Bloody Boer cannot be without significance
Statement by the Honourable Prime Minister, Comrade R.G. Mugabe, at the opening session of the International Conference on children,repression and the law in…
Anglo-Boer War 2 Col. B.T. Mahon occupies Potchefstroom.
Anglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Kimberley starts.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Baden-Powell occupies Zeerust.
Start of the second Boer trek to Angola.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Vaalkrans (Vaalkrantz) continues.
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 5: Colonial expansion in South Africa after 1750
… on the Khoikhoi, the Xhosa, the Basotho, the Zulus and the Boers. We explore changing labour patterns and slavery. We … the Xhosas response to this. We take…
Griqua community
… of the Orange Free State province. The arrival of the Boers and the colonial masters to the area known as … the colony, while others hunted ivory for…
Anglo-Boer War 2: Six unarmed Boer prisoners (later called the Geyser group) are murdered by members of the Bushveld Carabineer
Anglo-Boer War 2: The rearguard of the Boer forces under De Wet fights a running battle with Lord Methuen’s British force.
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer general Piet Cronje surrenders with 3 919 men (nearly 10% of the total republican fighting strength)
Anglo-Boer War 2: A group of eight surrendered Boer prisoners of war are shot by the Bushveld Carbineers and a German mission
Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer delegates at the Vereeniging national delegation agree fifty-four to six to accept the British proposals
Anglo-Boer War 2: Dinizulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boer. Colonel Bottomley warns him that unde
Anglo-Boer War 2: Zulu King Dinizulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boer republics. Col. Bottomley wa
Anglo-Boer War 2: The British delegation proposes that thirty representatives from each of the two Boer republics meet in a ‘na
Anglo-Boer War 2: Schalk Burger is appointed commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche
Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Joubert, commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republie
BiographyThambi Naransamy Naidoo
Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, also known as “Naran” or “Roy.” was born in 1901 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) where the family had moved during the…
BiographyMarthinus Wessel Pretorius
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was born in September 17, 1819, near Graaff-Reinet in the then Cape Colony. He was a boer statesman, soldier, eldest son of the…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… was in power and the amaXhosa were able to push the Boers off the land in the Zuurveld through calculated acts of … and report, mass immigration bribes,…
Millicent Fawcett
Fawcett was part of the Ladies’ Committee that was sent over from Britain during the Anglo Boer War in order to inspect the conditions in the concentration…
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… Convention . These negotiations were fruitful for the Boers because the British finally recognised the independence …
EventLord Kitchener And Louis Botha engage in doomed peace talks during the Second Anglo-Boer War
On February 28 British commander Lord Kitchener met Boer commander Louis Botha at Middelburg. The talks ultimately came to nothing, resulting in Kitchener…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
… However, not one government does anything concrete for the Boers. 1901 July, Paul Kruger's wife, Gezina Susanna …
BiographyJohanna Catharina Cornelius
Johanna was born in Licthtenburg on 27 February 1912 to an Afrikaner family where she grew up. Their family was very nationalistic, with both their father and…
Polokwane an Overview
… Boer or Briton, and by the late nineteenth century the Boers established Pietersburg after various attempts to …
BiographyJan Hofmeyr
A published and a principal figure in the Afrikaner Bond. However as a political moderate, he worked closely with Rhodes until the Jameson Raid that severed…