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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…
PlaceDie Kraal, Brummeria, Pretoria
… Pretoria in 1886 and moved to Holland at the time of the Boer War. He studied there and then returned home to South Africa, …
PlaceBothaville
… of Bothaville this one was burned down during the Boer War. It was re-built after the war, we can thus not be … to prevent the scrap collectors from…
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… 1916 his father fought against Germany in the First World War. David was born on a farm approximately 25km from …
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… Chief Thabo Lerothoil Mojela, a veteran of the First World War. Her Majesty Queen “M” amohato Bereng Seeiso was born in …
BiographyShapurji Sorabji
… Corps that was formed in London at the inauguration of the war and served at Netley, nursing the sick and the wounded. …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… are still not allowed to own property in the two former Boer Republics (Transvaal and the Orange Free State), or to … South Africa as part of the British…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… sources. Sources: http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/index/menu.htm …
A new class struggle
… standing room." According to Spencer Tyron, in the Zulu War of 1879 and in the Boer War, the Whites were capable of mustering a thousand … inhabitants of…
Polokwane an Overview
… but all were eventually vanquished by the Whites, either Boer or Briton, and by the late nineteenth century the Boers … served as a centre for the…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… declared that 16 December must be a public holiday in this Boer Republic. In 1894 the Government of the Free State also … 16 December to be a public holiday…
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… was maintained by a lease throughout the Second World War. At the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, Britain attempted to remove its presence from ……
EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… under Horatio Nelson. After the Ottoman Empire declared war on France in September 1798 and facing an Anglo-Turkish alliance, Napoleon decided the strike…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… central business district. It was loop-holed during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It bore witness to both the South African Wars …
PlacePretoria, now known as Tshwane
… by Marthinus Pretorius , son of Andries Pretorius , (the Boer statesman for whom the City was named after). Then … in 1910; and a City in 1931. During the…
PlaceWaverly Road Memorial, Durban South
… The South African War Memorial was unveiled on May 24, 1910, at 360 University … Avenue, in memory of those who lost their lives in the Boer War . It was…
PlaceConcordia
… reached Concordia on 23 April1889. On 4 April 1902 a Boer force of about 25 men led by Generals J.C. Smuts, … described it as "the most disgraceful affair of…
EventThe use of Dutch is ratified in the Cape parliament
… by the Cape Parliament in 1873. The First and Second Boer Wars reinforced the position of Afrikaans for after the war culminated; a new upsurge emerged to…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… from major platinum producers such as Impala Platinum, Anglo American Platinum and Lonmin Platinum Mines based in … the strike be hired again. The union also…
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… African Airways (Online), available at: http://www.fact-index.com [Accessed 28 July 2010] South African Airways: A …
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…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… which was under British control following the Second Anglo Boer War . This arrangement continued until 1906, when the kingdom …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… The YSS took an active role in the anti-Vietnam War movement, a campaign spearheaded by Mbeki. This led to … Campaign (VSC). The YSS became a major player in…
PlaceAhrens, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Built as a refuge for Dutch-speaking farmers during the Anglo-Zulu War, is also known as the Hermannsburg Laager! It was … t_databank/kzn/industries/paper…
PlaceGreater Mapungubwe Heritage Site And Tour.
… a number of very significant incidents during the Anglo-Boer War. …
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… to come by in Barkly East, but also because World War II had broken out and his mother lost her job from the … staff to join the students in protest against…
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
… Unfortunately,due to raids made by the British into the Boer Republics to get at the gold and diamonds there was a threat of war hanging over South Africa…
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
… from British-controlled territory. Some 12,000 of these Boer emigrants moving Northward from the Cape crossed the … to the Transvaal when Great Britain…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… of the Cape and now administrator of the two former Boer Republics, imposes a number of administrative acts that … in bazaars set up for this purpose. …
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… General Christiaan Rudolph de Wet was a Boer soldier and statesman, regarded by Afrikaner … chief of the Orange Free State forces in the South African War …