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Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain annexes the gold fields of Transvaal.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain annexes the gold fields of Transvaal.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Queensland, Australia, offers military aid to Britain.
Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under Gen. French occupy Carolina.
Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces under Gen. Buller occupy Lydenburg.
Anglo-Boer War 2: President Kruger’s wife, Gezina, dies in Pretoria.
Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces under Lord Roberts take Bloemfontein.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Western Australia offers military assistance to Britain.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Presidents Steyn and Kruger move to Nelspruit.
Gen. Christiaan Frederik Beyers, Boer general, is born in Stellenbosch.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Martial law is declared in the Transvaal.
Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under Gen. French occupy Carolina.
Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces under Gen. Buller occupy Lydenburg.
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Klipriviersberg or Doornkop starts.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Generals Smuts and Liebenberg captures Modderfontein, Transvaal.
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… began to take place between these new immigrants, or Boers as they became known, and the Ndebele-Pedi alliance, … by a Swazi force acting at the instigation…
BiographyEric Mbatha
Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. He had a longer…
BiographyJopie (Josef Johannes) Fourie
Jopie Fourie was born in the Pretoria district in 1878. He was a scout and dispatch rider during the South African War, and was wounded and captured in an…
EventSouth African boxers,Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga both win world titles
22 October 1999 was a red-letter day in South African boxing history, as both Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga captured world titles. Mbityi, South African (SA)…
Johanna Brandt, nurse and spy for the Boer forces during Anglo-Boer War 2 and also author of several books on the war and natur
Gen. Christiaan Rudolph de Wet (67), well-known leader of Boer forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2, dies on his farm. He was given
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… before the law. This political act is unacceptable to the Boers who regard Blacks as uncivilised heathen and therefore … The Battle of Vegkop, while…
EventThe first Boer Trek to Angola that started in 1874 reaches Lake Ngami (Thirstland Trek) in 1875
The Thirstland Trek is the name given to the exodus of Boer/Afrikaans families, most of them from the districts of Pretoria and Rustenburg, through Northern…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… such as: Where else were people going to live when … (the Boers were fighting the war)? People were put in camps for … on 13 March 1900, he issued a…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… subsequently proved fruitless 1852 British grant Transvaal Boers independence in terms of the Sand River Convention. …