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BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… towards the Afrikaner nation after the South African War. The Verwoerd family settled in Wynberg, Cape Town for … which were seen as a threat to Afrikaners…
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… power in a peaceful election following a seven-year civil war, launched from neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire in 1989. He …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… Hoek near Uitenhage on the 17th of July 1852 during the War of Mlanjeni. [15] Mlanjeni was a powerful and influential prophet who rallied the amaXhosa to war…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… by British forces in 1879. The British then provoked a war with the Zulu Kingdom in 1879, defeated them, and annexed … and how important their skills were to…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… and water between various indigenous tribes resulting in war and eventually contributing to the Mfecane 1812 … the present-day Warmbaths in northern…
PlaceBethal
… The town's Memorial Square is the site of the burial of Boer soldiers who were killed in battle. One source lists … burghers (Boer soldiers) who fell in the …
BiographyJohn Smith Moffat
… Pioneer Column provoked Lobengula into the First Matabele War, Moffat fell out with Rhodes. In 1893 he exposed the … Methuen.|Martin Meredith, M. (2007),…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
… was not very strong. At the end of the 1930s, with World War II starting in Europe, militancy and awareness was …
BiographyIan Mkhize
… songs and vowing to kill him. When they began their war chant "usuthu, usuthu", Mkhize, his wife Eunice and four …
BiographyKenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa
… the Bonny Island oil terminal. Nigeria experienced a civil war between 1967 and 1970, and during the conflict, Saro-Wiwa …
BiographyPenelope Jane Dunlop
… career. In 1988 Powers performed at a charity event for war orphans in Zimbabwe , where she shared the stage with …
BiographySophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn
… . When her father joined the army to fight in World War II , Sophia’s mother Frances Elizabeth moved out of the …
BiographyBrian Percy Bunting
… an air mechanic and information officer during the World War Two.After his return he served as assistant national …
PlaceNorthern Cape
… all over the World come to Namaqualand to see the flowers! Anglo-Boer War battles The Northern Cape was very important in the …
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… prison built in the 1890s to house prisoners of war during the Anglo-Boer Wars (1899-1902); the Number Four Prison Block, a … attractionsga/constitution-hill…
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… many memorials and sites of some important battles of the Anglo-Boer war , most notably the ' Siege of Kimberley', in 1899 with … between 14 th October 1899…
PlacePretoria Correctional Service Museum
… But construction only took place in earnest after the Anglo-Boer War, when the company 'Prentice and Mackey' started work on …
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… his childhood was spent in a concentration camp during the Anglo Boer War. This did not deter him from excelling academically. …
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… Gus, founded the Ackermans chain after the First World War with two army buddies . Raymond Ackerman re-invented his … Herber won that round, because by 1946…
PlaceKranskop, KZN
… Claridge and Dalton. From Battlefield sites of the Anglo-Boer War to historical churches, outdoor wilderness, waterfalls …
BiographyBertha Solomon
… the South African Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II . In 1958 she retired from active politics. She was … the South African Women's Auxiliary…
BiographyJacobus Wilhelmus Sauer
… the Cape Colony. After the outbreak of the South African War, Sauer tried to persuade some Afrikaners in the Cape not …
BiographyAlan McLeod Cormack
… the north of Scotland shortly before the outbreak of World War One. The Cormack family moved around the country a fair …
Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
… in North Africa and Italy as a lance corporal. After the war, he resumed his medical studies and qualified with a … Foundation and of the Medical Campaign…
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
… an area on the way to Pietermartizburg. The Second World War interrupted his schooling. Together with his cousins he had to tend cattle and work on the farm…
PlaceNieu-Bethesda
… plays were written. On 6 August 1901, during the Second Anglo Boer War , Boer forces under Commandant Hans Lotter entered …
PlaceOld Presidency
… Government abandoned the Orange River Sovereignty and the Boer Republic then took over the residence. This independence … of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… demanding times that followed the Second World War. Fehr’s milieux, like those of his antecedents, and … all on the outer edge of the Cape Colony. Early in…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… The 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging between the British and the Boer republics ended the Second Anglo Boer War . This period saw a cordial relationship being…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… 19th century South African History. The first frontier war broke out in 1780 and marked the beginning of the Xhosa … in the Transvaal, and the outbreak of…