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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…
BiographyWinston Field
… when he went for military service during the Second World War. In 1957 he was elected Federal MP for Mtoko under the … Tobacco Association; army serviceman…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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),…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyGreg Marinovich
… concentrate on writing a non-fiction book about the hostel war and the road to democracy. He is now once again …
BiographyPaul Ramotsoane Mosaka
… States of America drew up the Atlantic Charter as a post war peace and security charter. The Atlantic Charter …
BiographyMary Eveline Fincken
… hostels were, however, bombed during the Second World War (1939-1945) . She returned to South Africa in 1943 and …
BiographyJudge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
… Lithuania at the age of six, on the eve of the First World War, and his mother, Ray, had arrived as an infant. Both of …
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…