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EventThe British successfully thwart the Zulu attack at Rorke’s Drift
… During the Anglo-Zulu war Lord Chelmsford, commander of the British forces, took …
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
… Mokoena was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg during World War II. He grew up in the township, but due to his mother’s …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… The AWB’s intention was to establish a homeland for the Boer ‘volk’ (people). The AWB functioned as a semi-secret … and threatened then President F.W. de…
PlacePosthuys
… residence, until it was restored with funds from the Anglo American Corporation. Evidence exists that the site … that in 1662 when, due to the imminent…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… times of tumultuous change in South Africa, including the Anglo Boer War and the creation of the Union of South Africa. He …
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… hovering over the scenes where commandos were mobilizing. Boer commandos were soon on their way to fight for the … Smuts threatened a general ground…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… and Australia, and displaced Boers from the farms and the Anglo-Boer war. Another source of labour was indentured labour from …
EventRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace, South African author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.
… comedians. In 1896, he came to South Africa, during the Boer War, where he met with Rudyard Kipling, the English novelist … he visited a place called Vigo…
PlaceThe Fountain and Garden of Remembrance, Chatswood-Sydney. Willoughby Park Centre
… in the service of the Empire, during the South African Boer War of 1899-1901.’ The marble Memorial is located in the … in the “Service of the Empire” during…
BiographyEmil Sachs
… but this was prevented by the outbreak of the First World War (1914-1918). After completing Standard 5 he left school …
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… and it was here that he started his art classes. With the war of 1900 between the Boers and the English, the Pierneef …
BiographyJonathan Clegg
… haunting refrain Impi (meaning “Zulu warriors” or "War") regularly echoes within any South African Rugby stadium …
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… 16, he said: “We see it as an official declaration of war on the black students by our ‘peace-officers'.” Mashinini …
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
… near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the young …
BiographyEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy
… were cooperating in the struggle. During the Second World War, the United States and Britain talked about four freedoms …
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… Political party in South Africa has called for a statue of Boer leader Paul Kruger to be pulled down and replaced by one … speech for singing anti-White…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… first British occupation was noteworthy for a merciless war against Ndlambe, with the assistance of the missionaries. … of brutal aggression, robbery and…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… Men rent beds, not houses, in the Golden City.' After the Anglo-Boer War established that Britain was to control the economy and …
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… via officers mess of General French’s staff in the Anglo Boer War, back to family Home, through several changes in …
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… Schweizer-Reneke, is where we ended and the third Boer War, another South African war, will start here again. The … Boers and this had resulted in the…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… will be mainly concerned with the question of whether Boer or Briton shall get possession of the reins of … in South Africa, and it will be seen how far the…
Document 85 - E. R. Roux, “The Native Exploiters: A reply to ‘A. Z.”’, Umsebenzi,20 April 1935
… necessary to emphasise the effect of the present policy of Anglo-Boer imperialism upon the Native petty-bourgeoisie. Such …
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… to reoccupy their land, only to find themselves ousted by Boer intruders. For example, in Natal the African population, … and it was hoped that the…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… about 30,000 indentured workers in Natal, and before the Anglo-Boer War a few thousand had moved to the Transvaal. Indentured …
ArticleCaste - meaning, profession, religion
… Kal meaning death - Sikh in origin. www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Akali Ambalagar - Headmen of village. … - a tribe of warriors. www.in.answers.yahoo.com…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… in 1854 who took refuge in a large cave to escape a Boer commando sent as reprisal for the murders of several Boer families. There are various versions of…
PlaceBritish Kaffraria, now the Border Region
… by D'Urban were rescinded. Following the frontier war from 1846 to 1848 the colonial boundary of the Cape was … the tribal divisions existing in the region…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… the Transvaal for Natal, the Cape Colony and India when war broke out. It restricted Asiatics into segregated … entered the country illegally (mostly at the…
PlaceKroondal, Rustenburg
… when the river was too low to power the wheel. Sadly, the Boer war interrupted this steady, prosperous progress and Georg … meanwhile, removed bearings from…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… of the larger picture was ceded to men. After World War II , women took a more assertive role in all aspects of … friends and colleagues back into what was…