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… Gender and Colonialism: Rethinking the History of the British Cape Colony and its Frontier Zones c. 1806-1870 , …

… established in 1910. Although South Africa was no longer a British colony, it was not an independent country either. Its …

… Between 1962 and 1995 he was the Honorary Secretary of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Minty played an important …

… before travelling to London where he met leaders of British opposition parties. He returned to South Africa in …

… Vorster was instrumental in the founding of the anti-British Ossewa-Brandwag (OB), and also became a general in …

… to a republic and to argue his case to remain within the British Commonwealth. This request for a constitutional …

… in a war of a global scale and play a strategic role. The British worked with the South African government under Jan …

… disillusioned by the treatment of Afrikaners by the British colonial government and attempted to challenge this …

… be set aside to improve the schools in the Cape. After the British took over Cape Colony from the Dutch, the governor of …

… lobbied for the interests of the Boers and was critical of British rule and especially antislavery laws. According to … in goods, railing against merchants, bankers and agents of British financial capitalism. It targeted in particular the … incited Afrikaners of the Transvaal to rise against British rule, prompting the Cape Synod to investigate the …

… can be relocated, completes its work. 16 February, The British Indian Union of East London dissolves and forms the … Assisted Emigration Scheme. The Committee identifies British North Borneo, British New Guinea and British Guiana as suitable for Indian …

… with any precision by society. Roberts, in her study of British working-class women during the late nineteenth and … notions of motherhood. In his study of the making of the British working class, E, P. Thompson argues: 'According to … Afrikaner nationalists who, in a manner reminiscent of the British occupation with working-class degeneracy, concerned …

… war, many African people associated themselves with the British in the hope of improving their lot. The vagaries of … African people were incarcerated alongside Afrikaners in British concentration camps. The British seemed to have much in common with the Afrikaners: in …

… to General Barry Hertzogs efforts to influence the British African policy. Allison Wessels George (A.W.G.) … Imperial Conference in London asks South African voice in British Imperial policy in Africa. 5 - 6 October, An … can be relocated, completes its work. 16 February, The British Indian Union of East London dissolves and forms the …

… seats reserved for white voters on a separate roll.  The British-appointed Governor, Lord Soames, immediately invited …

… country. The institution was formally controlled by the British Admiralty. Its purpose was to observe the southern …

… African War of 1899-1902. During the war Baden-Powell, a British officer enlisted boys to act as messengers and …

… had taken up a post on the hill, making it impossible for British soldiers to pass. They needed to be dislodged. The …

… importance of the Malabar region where, rumour has it, the British spotted a peacock for the first time. Hence the …

… by Nosipho Majeke IN THE EIGHTEEN-FIFTIES and after, British politicians were wont to invoke Divine Providence, … inheritor of Dr. Philip's schemes for the expansion of the British Empire. His plans were as sweeping as the military … more productive, there will be an increased consumption of British manufactures, taxes will be paid and farmers will …

… of the eighteenth century. 1781 In an attempt to avert a British threat to Dutch control at the Cape, the French who … without the support of the Cape government. With the first British occupation of the Cape (1795-1803), the rule of the … end. General J. Craig is appointed Commanding Officer. The British authority outlaws torture in the Cape Colony. 1798 …

… and affiliates- six UDF and NIC leaders take refuge in the British Consulate in Durban, in a very public protest against … without charging them for any criminal offence. While British officials make it clear that the ‘fugitives’ are … June, a UDF delegation, led by Albertina Sisulu, meets British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, new American …

… divided in two: those opposed to efforts to side with the British and those, like Smuts and Botha, who stood with the British against the Germans. The plan to invade German-held … 1914. Three regiments of Kgafela-Kgatla served with the British in South West Africa, while another regiment served …

… of Afrikaner farms and the dop system in South Africa. The British took over the Cape from the Dutch in 1795. Seven … to the Dutch government, only to be ruled over by the British again in 1806 with the help of an alliance between … the group to think of themselves as ‘ Afrikaner , not British' (485, Cape Colony). The mass exodus of Afrikaners …

… letter to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston in an appeal to the British People to oppose the visit of P.W. Botha 16 June … , in London. 10 November Writes an article, Botha's British Allies for the Observer, London. Tambo and the ANC … Tribute at Wembley Stadium, London, organised by the British Anti Apartheid Movement June Delivers "Peace and …

… July: While waiting to receive his passport from the British Consulate, Xuma does observation work at the Mayo … for his qualifying exams and license to practice in the British Empire, Xuma travels to the University of Edinburgh, … Hospital. 31 July: Xuma addresses a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in …

… to develop his writing skills. He affects a very British mocking, snobbish and understating style. His … apparently, the first and the last time he wrote in this British, understated, mocking style. Not knowing whether he … the date. After the meeting, Gandhi went to England to ask British leaders to put pressure on South Africa to treat its …

… land confiscated. We have said that the establishment of British supremacy meant the establishment of the new economic … a Viscount Milner, who began his career as a member of the British Liberal Party and who, as High Commissioner, paved … was a Dutchman who became the staunch servant of British Imperialism. It has also required its liberals. If …

… judge that the motives inspiring the officials of the then British Parliament were born of the essential Christian … Jack on a uniform equality of citizenship with all other British subjects elsewhere in the Empire on which the sun … un-Christian and subversive of all that is best in British tradition, resulting in palpable unrest among' the …

… and more personal contact with South Africans. Some of the British churchmen who had served in South Africa became … at Friends House, arranged for the participation of many British organisations and individuals, and presented … the programme of the Special Committee. From that time the British AAM became, in effect, the closest non-governmental …