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EventRugby player Breyton Paulse is included in the national team after the ANCYL challenged the decision to omit him
… that a temporary cease-fire was called for during the Anglo-Boer War so that a match could be played between the British and …
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… W. Schlesinger made his home in South Africa after the Boer war, and founded several insurance companies. He pioneered …
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… for very long owing to the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899. At the time, the building served as a prison, … High School for Girls , founded in 1902…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… The story goes that this occurred when battle-weary Boer soldiers came to this place to recover from the South African War. On 27 March 1889, President Paul…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… the supposed ‘land claim’ that seems to have ignited the war between the Voortrekkers and the Zulu’s. The mutilated … claim that it disappeared in 1900…
PlaceUniondale
… produces aloe crystal, gel and health drinks and the six Anglo Boer War forts - one of which has been restored to its original …
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… year. A treaty with the English is ratified to avert civil war. The Sand River Convention. 1853 Rustenburg’s first shop … War is declared, pitting the…
ArticleNdebele
… encroached on the areas occupied by the Ndzundza Ndebele. Boer settlements, established between the Olifants and … Chief Mabhoko I. In 1883, during the reign…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
… success, she was forced to return home due to the looming war . She briefly worked as a secretary in the British High … Algeria, Italy, Greece, and Austria…
ArticleMatabele Wars 1836-1896
… South Africa feature to read more about this). Mzilikazi's War with the Voortrekkers: In the 1830s the Ndebele king made … at Mosega. The Voortrekker leaders…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… meets and President James Madison decides to declare war on Britain for Canadian territory. 1812 The Anglo American War breaks out. 1814 The British war…
Ruth Alexander
… in tone, although at points during the First World War Schreiner became increasingly concerned about not …
BiographySir Sydney Kentridge
… He served with the South African forces in World War II for four years and went on to attend Exeter College in … World War II soldier, Advocate, Queens…
Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay
… she became politically active. After the First World War Thambi Naidoo of the South African Indian Congress …
BiographyBilly Paddock
… the fact that at the time, the SADF was waging an unjust war against the people of Namibia. As he said in his defence, …
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1951-1952
… Social welfare and recreation; Administration of justice; Index to legislation mentioned in the text; Index to Government Commissions and Committees…
PlaceWhite River, Mpumalanga
… of the people that settled in White River, after the Anglo-Boer War , have remained practically the same to this day. The …
PlaceKopanong Local Municipality, Free Sate
… Battlefields of significant battles conducted during the Anglo-Boer War, e.g. Mostert’s Hoek; Philippolis ‘Witblits' Festival; …
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… Africa: the privileged and the dispossessed. ENGLAND: Index on Censorship, The Race Today Review, Wasafiri. SOUTH …
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… her husband has become in South Africa. 1899 October, The Anglo-Boer War is declared. December, The Natal government reverses its …
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… become subjected to British rule, the two former Boer republics (“Transvaal” and “Oranje-Vrystaat”) and the … not have started the First War of Independence …
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… News had just arrived in Bizana that the Second World War had ended, and celebrations had been scheduled. Along … she travelled to Zimbabwe to express…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… Europe, Schwarz flew in Baltimore aircraft. Throughout the war, his Squadron was stationed in Libya, Egypt, Italy, Malta … powers. Returning to South Africa…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… children over the Fish River from Zuurveld in the Fourth War of Dispossession. They then establish 27 military … and seize 23 000 cattle marking the outbreak…
BiographyAziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
… autobiography Insurgent Diplomat — Civil Talks or Civil War? “a humane and a sunny disposition and common touch”. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… [Accessed from https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02730/05lv03188/06lv03190.htm … to the 1940s. (6) The trek to the…
BiographyRaymond 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…
PlaceMelmoth, Gateway to Zululand
… of Dingaan and where Piet Retief and his party of Boer commandos were executed and Ulundi, the Capital of Zululand , is the Site of the last battle of the…
PlaceHalvey Hotel, Bloemfontein
… National Women's Memorial Museum, the Botanical Gardens, Anglo Boer War Museum and Battlefields, hiking in the Zoutspruit Game …
EventCetshwayo, travels to London to request that he should be restored as a king of the Zulu Kingdom
… Cape after losing the crucial Battle of Ulundi, during the Anglo Zulu War against Sir Frere and his men. Cetshwayo undertook the … flee to Eshowe, where he…