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A new constitution is given to the former Boer republic of Transvaal.
A new constitution is given to the former Boer republic of Transvaal.
Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Chrissiesmeer (Lake Chrissie) takes place.
BiographyPaul Alberts
Paul Alb erts, one of South Africa’s leading social documentary photographers, was born in 1946 in Pretoria. He spent his youth in Botswana and the Limpopo…
The Afrikaner Bond
… or no representation in the Cape Parliament, and the Boers had not paid attention to securing such representation. … Ordinance 19 in 1826 and finally…
Notes for speech at the Kimberley rally De Beers Stadium, 17 September 1994
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… amongst themselves, as well as with the British, the Boers and even the Portuguese in Mozambique. They bought … were controlled by colonists either the…
EventKing Dinuzulu defies British order
… by Dinuzulu and Bottomley at oSuthu and advanced against Boers who had fled with their cattle to the Dleke hill, about … guns and ammunition left on the…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
On 16 July 1901, the Ladies commission was appointed. The members who were considered impartial were, Mrs. Millicent G. Fawcett, Emily Hobhouse and Dr. Jane…
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… after gold had been discovered in the region in 1886. The Boers made use of guerrilla tactics by sabotaging British … the British responded by burning down…
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… set about doing this, and a bloodbath ensued in which 56 Boers were killed, three captured and 380 head of cattle … underlying causes of this conflict was…
BiographyJan Celliers
Jan Celliers was born on 12 January 1865 on the farm Wagenmakersvallei near Wellington. A few years later his family moved to Cape Town where he attended an…
BiographyAnton van Wouw
Anton van Wouw was born in Driedergen, Netherlands on 20 November 1862. He is regarded as the father of South African sculpture. He decided to move to the…
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
… the renunciation of British sovereignty. Initially the Boers (Voortrekkers) who came from the Cape Colony in the … between the Cape Colony and the rest of…
ArticleThe Basotho
… attacks from the Ndebele under Mzilikazi, the Griquas, the Boers on several occasions and the British, under the control … In 1867 and 1868 most of…
Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane
Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at Rand Airport,Johannesburg.He was held…
Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen arrives in Cape Town aboard the Moor.
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Mounted Brigade under Lord Dundonald enters Ermelo unopposed.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. M.T. Steyn appoints judge J.B.M. Hertzog as general.
Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain sends 30 000 additional troops to South Africa.
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… the matter is that historians have noted that most of the Boers of the frontiers did not own slaves as most of the … Great Trek. The fact of the matter is…
PlaceElaandslaagte, a Mission Station in Kwa Zulu Natal
… against Railway station north of Ladysmith taken by Boers. The article featured in the New York Times, described … Elandslaagte, threatening to sever…
BiographyTielman Johannes de Villiers Roos
Tielman Roos was born in Cape Town on 8 May 1879. He was educated at the South African College qualified as an advocate when he was only 23 years old. He…
Former Anglo American and De Beers chairman, Harry Oppenheimer (91), dies after a short illness.
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
Dr Jotello Festiri Soga, the first South African of any race to obtain a degree in veterinary medicine, was born in 1865 at the Mgwali Mission in the then…
EventFive power stations are blown up as tensions rise during WWII
… but also because of the latter country's support for the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War . The pro-German or pro-Axis … the Allies, because of the previous…
BiographyWilliam Philip Schreiner
William Philip Schreiner, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, anti-British imperialist, and a proponent for the integration of all ‘civilised men' including …
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… For the most part they respected the land claims of the Boers who had entered the region just before British colonisation (although these Boers had to submit…
Chapter IX - Triumph of disunity (1)
… Colony in small groups under different leaders””the Trek Boers. Inter-tribal strife, fomented by the Whites, was used … of British policy in relation to both…
EventEmily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps
… including 3000 thousands farms and 40 towns where most Boers lived and placed them in the concentration camps that … has had conflicting accounts. Some state…