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BiographyStephanie Kemp
… arsing from the family's experiences in the South African War, worked as a principal of the Swartland Laerskool. Her …
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…
PlaceRooihuiskraal Battlefield, Pretoria
… took place, on 12 February 1881 during the First War of Independence (1880-81). During the war, Pretoria was besieged by Boer forces for a period of 100 days…
PlaceNewcastle
… Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War , Newcastle today is the largest town in northern KwaZulu … Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War, Newcastle today is…
EventDe La Rey is persuaded not to speak to the Burghers
… On 12 August 1913, Koos De La Rey, a South African War II General, was ordered to meet with Generals Jan C … of South Africa, which was formed after the…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… study of the process of proletarianisation and the inter-war conditions of urban African life, bears the strong …
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… at 17 and served in Egypt and then Italy. Following World War 2 he began studies in agriculture at Cambridge. He left …
EventThe Battle of Kambula takes place
… On 29 March 1879, the Anglo-Zulu War Battle of Kambula took place. The battle involved the …
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899 to 1902. The women, Florence Phillips (1863-1940) … her exposure of conditions in the…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… 1900-1910 Gumede’s hopes that the British victory in the Anglo-Boer war would result in the removal of the oppressive features of …
EventZulu King Cetshwayo Dies
… army should disarm. When Cetshwayo rejected the ultimatum, war broke out. The Zulus won the battle of Isandlwana but … poisoning rumored at the time. For…
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 …
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… the Xhosas; the Zulus; and my people, the Afrikaners. The Anglo-Boer War was by far the biggest of the 50 or so wars that Britain …
EventKgalusi Seketa Masilo Ratshatsha Malaboch (Mmalebogo, Lebogo) dies
… Transvaal (now Limpopo) who led his followers in the Boer-Gagananwa war of 1894, dies in Bochum-Blouberg, Northern Transvaal. …
EventFormer Springbok captain Bobby Skinstad is born
Robert Brian (Bobby) Skinstad, the youngest ever Springbok rugby captain, was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Skinstad captained the Springboks in…
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
… was famous for her mental focus ritual of spinning her index fingers around each other and leaning sideways before …
East Cape Update
… News Agencies in Grahamstown, aimed to provide a reliable index of in-depth information and analysis of the Eastern …
1. The Way to Fox Street
… Moshoeshoe's kingdom during the Basotho-Orange Free State war of 1865, when its leaders signed a separate peace treaty … farmers were so strong that when…
EventBritain proclaims Natal a British colonial territory
… the power of the volksraad finally came to an end. In the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 the British defeated the Zulus under the command … South African History…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… on heavy industries. In 1917, as the USA entered the war, Weinberg notes how “Major industrial interests profited … greatly. Sitting at the lever of the…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… and elsewhere in the penultimate year of the First World War. This was the first time aircraft, only a recent … military historian Max Hastings as a …
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 …
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… a big slice of Johnnie, created from the unbundling by Anglo American of Johannesburg Consolidated Investments. …
The National Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein is celebrating its 100-year existence this year
… Book stalls, Boere-orkes marathon 09:00 – Tug-of-war competition kick-off 10:00 – 10:30 - Boer War re-enactment at the fort 13:00 – Launch of Ideas 100 and …
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
… . Is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War . Years later in 1847, an Irishman named; Jim Rorke, … Buildings at Rorke’s Drift were…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… this occupied landscape was drawn into the orbit of the Boer republics, the mineral revolution and the imperial … met the line to the sea. Nelspruit and the…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… and France had beenin a dispute since the Hundred Year’s War. These countries became involved in a race to acquire … time. European troops entering Kumane…
EventThe 104mm field-gun known as ‘Long Cecil’ is test fired for the first time
… Cecil John Rhodes, was test fired for the first time at Boer forces during the Siege of Kimberley. Rhodes, who had … only such guns as had been officially…
EventCharles Barends, the renowned South African jockey is born
… Endnotes [i] C Barends (Charlie), http://julyhandicap.info/index.php?page=person&personid=1815 (6 April 2017). ↵ [ii] … 2005)|C Barends (Charlie), https:/…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… of the Transvaal. Before 1886 it was a poor, struggling Boer republic but ten years later, it was the richest gold … of internal conflicts within African…