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PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… 1886 and 1888. Edmund Bourke became a burger of the Boer Republic and was a personal friend of President Kruger. Thus the outbreak of the second war of…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… Chapter 6: A Kora-English Dictionary, with English-Kora index Kora - English English - Kora index The special list 1: Names of the Korana clans …
BiographyDennis Brutus
… Among other recent accolades bestowed on him was the US War Resisters League peace award in September 2009.One of the …
BiographySheila Weinberg
… came to South Africa from Latvia, after the First World War and the Socialist October Revolution of 1917. In 1932, he …
BiographyMolly Fischer
… been General Smuts ’s aide-de-camp during the First World War , and his sister, Isie, was married to the General. …
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… and boys so they can go and work in the mines. After the Anglo-Boer war in the first ten years of the 21st century, there was a …
Bernard Shaw and May Morris
… of private ownership will be the result of a civil war, means the opposite of any libertarian purpose. The war … about the purpose for it. I was a combatant…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
… of Satyagraha. The first happened during the South African War, otherwise referred to as the Anglo-Boer War. During this War, Gandhi and other leaders of the…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
… from the period 1988 to 1994, on the conflict (civil war/state dirty tricks) in the Natal midlands to his credit. …
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
… for the Department of Defence in Pretoria during the World War II. In the 1950’s she married Harry Cleminshaw , and …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… who came to South Africa when the Transvaal was still a Boer republic, and stayed during the Anglo Boer War and beyond. In several newspapers, he denounced…
EventThe Battle of Gingindlovu
… The Anglo-Zulu War Battle of Gingindlovu took place on 2 February 1879. It …
PlaceBlockhouse in Hekpoort, Krugersdorp
… The Building was erected during the South African Boer War by the British Military, under the guidance of …
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
… Church. The English Fort and Armoury: Remnants of the Anglo-Boer War (ABW), 1899-1902, if you are interested in ABW history …
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… 15 years after the Union of South Africa was formed. The Boer community was still recovering fresh wounds from the defeat by British settlers in the South…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… or "inboekselings". These are mainly labourers in the Boer settlements that spread in the interior of South Africa, particularly in areas that were to become…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… Scotland: John Ritchie. APPLEYARD, Rev. JW. 1971. The War of the Axe and the Xhosa Bible. Cape Town: C Struik. … Vol XII, pp 258-272. London. FRESCURA,…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… of Cuito Carnavale) | click here The SADF also fought a war in Mocambique and supported Renamo against Somora … no longer beneficial for their profits. Big…
EventMining Magnate Oppenheimer dies
… magnate, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who founded the Anglo American Corporation, died in Johannesburg at the age … controlled the diamond price after the First…
PlaceNational Women’s Monument
… van Wouw , was put up in 1913 in remembrance of the 26 370 Boer women and children who died in prison camps during the South African War . This monument, is…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… of their lives. Gumede was eleven years old when the Anglo-Zulu War erupted. Judged against the background of his involvement … FIGHTING THE WHITE MAN’S WAR:…
References and links: Local History
… ithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/history_close/index.html [Accessed: 7 January 2015] Videos …
Zulu Community
… the land between Durban and the Tugela river to found a Boer Republic in Natal. Shortly afterwards, Dingane had the … disarm and Cetshwayo should forsake his…
EventZulu army defeat British Army at the Isandlwana Mountain
… victory for the Zulu kingdom, led by King Cetshwayo The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 ended on July 4 at the last ritual battle of …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… of Germany, whose forces fought the British during World War 1. This was his father's way of showing opposition to the … was due to the efforts of Gavin…
The Afrikaner Bond
… of the people. Some wanted to see Dutch adopted as the Boer lingua franca, while an opposed group sought to develop … a success for Du Toit. Much of the…
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… 39. According to the Mastercard Global Destination Cities Index, since 2014 it has been Africa’s Most Visited City. … in the 2015; edition of the Global…
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… p. 550. http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9610/30/s.africa/index.html#3 …
Document 83 “Native Bourgeoisie as a Class”, Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935
… restricted by the oppression and strong competition of Anglo-Boer capital cannot be denied. But this does not mean that …
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… General Louis Botha left to rally the remnants of the Boer army. Botha had been persuaded to continue the war by the Free State President Martinus Steyn and…