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BiographyTim Bruwer
… and I decided that I would never participate in any war if I could possibly help it. I returned home at the end … a month later to play my part as a reserve…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… whites. The membership increased tremendously during the war years. Ponnen chaired the Durban District Committee from … Rubber Workers Union 1945 - Tobacco…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 17 February 1977, Volume 108
… Willem Hendrik du Toit, Personnel Consultant for Anglo American Corporation and others, to the Commission of …
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… continued to use the land for grazing. The First Basotho War Further conflict occurred after JN Boshof; President of … However, these discussions only led to…
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… in 1870, but strife between contesting groups led to civil war that weakened the Ndebele Empire. British imperial …
BiographyMadi Gray
… from Germany, who came to South Africa during the inter-war period. Being a refugee from Germany, her mother …
BiographyViolet Weinberg
… Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union during the First World War, and the Socialist October Revolution in 1917. [3] Eli …
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… the oppression and murder of Palestinians and against the war in Afghanistan. Fatima Meer is also patron and founder …
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… ideological battles that were being fought during World War II. He grew up in the then mixed-race area of …
UCT Summer School 2020
… doubts, change and challenges MORE UNTOLD STORIES OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR Emeritus Professor Mike de Jongh, research fellow, … and tells the stories that lie…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 4. War Issue In February 1933, the two main white political … brought no unity, either ideological or…
The Battle of Square Hill
… Participation as combatants in the First World War was reserved for men of “European descent”. [i] According … (APO) to raise an armed corps for the First…
PlaceDullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
… settlers therefore, returned to Holland. During the Second Anglo-Boer War , the British razed the Village to the ground, destroying … the cross fire between…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The African Peoples Organisation and the Teachers League of South Africa
… coloured elite came out strongly in support of the British war effort. They shared the same illusions that support for the war would eventually lead to their…
EventZach de Beer is elected as leader of the PFP
… The 59 year old executive of Anglo American, Dr Zach de Beer, was elected as leader of the …
The International Socialist League (ISL)
… for South Africa’s participation in the First World War . On 22 September the ISL was formed with W. H Andrews as … position of socialists elsewhere in the…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… as well as the new domestic priorities in the post-war period for colonial rulers. The climate before WW2 By the … rule was achieved in 1910 shortly before…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… matters of art and of politics just after the end of the Anglo Boer War drew spontaneous cries of "hear, hear" and generated much … art which became most…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… after the Tsar's decision to enter the First World War. The Russian army was ill prepared and the war effort made matters worse. In March 1917 workers riots …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… to be installed a few weeks later. The ravages of the Anglo-Boer Wars (1899-1903)and World War I (1914-1918) accompanied by the subsequent suffering …
PlaceVissershok Farm
… rowdy weekend parties for VOC officials'. During the Anglo-Dutch Wars, which took place over three separate … India were captured by the Dutch and held as…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… refers to the Boers who kept fighting the British in the war after the annexation of the Transvaal and Orange Free … word for “farmer”. In the context of…
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… in 1941 to fight for the rights of soldiers during World War II and in the post-war period. Over time the organisation became radicalised by … and decline of…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… those who are less fortunate in their means. But, as the Anglo-Boer war has brought into the country a large number of European … industrial, and otherwise. …
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
… Moshoeshoe expected them to support him and his people in war. In this way, Moshoeshoe built up his chiefdom from 25 … of this land to the Boers. He also did…
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… Rebellions Against Colonial Rule Before the Second World War After 1900, Europe began to introduce changes to colonial … labour practices on white owned…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… the Transvaal for Natal, the Cape Colony and India when war broke out. It restricted Asiatics into segregated … refused trading licenses except in Asiatic…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… the King of the Baostho Moshoeshoe I. 1878 Sekhukhuni at war with the Transvaal and British colonial administrations. … destination for migrants. 1899 - 1902…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… of South Africa, their treatment after the South African War and numerous laws that controlled and restricted black movement and labour. The end of the South…
ArchiveNUM, FEDTRAW, rural, parliament and miscellaneous
… Different articles on NUM, as Anglo American Corporation yesterday appeal to the National …