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ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… Police were called to support the British. In September 1900 Lord Roberts, commander-in-chief of the British forces, … printing office was established in…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
The destruction of the Zulu kingdom 1879 -1896 In the 1870s settler and colonial determination to bring Blacks under firm political control had undermined the…
ArticleLives of Courage
… for freedom against segregation and Apartheid from 1900-1994. Launch of the Project, 2000 The ‘Lives of …
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… 1896-7 Starvation leads to a breakout of Bubonic Plague. 1900 Historic gathering of the Transvaal and Orange Free …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
The 1940s were characterised by changes that had a profound effect on the political landscape in South Africa. There was closer cooperation between the CPSA…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… to relieve Ladysmith between December 1899 and February 1900. These were the Battles of Colenso (15 December 1899), Spionskop (25 January 1900) and Vaalkrans…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… up the role of Supreme Commander of British forces in 1900 helped turn the tide in the Anglo-Boer War. In the early … Roberts managed to relieve all the…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… occupied the Free State capital, Bloemfontein, on 13 March 1900, he issued a proclamation inviting the Boers to lay down … occupation of the Transvaal…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
Introduction Staffrider was a South African literary and arts magazine published by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993. It took its name and…
EventField Marshal Lord Roberts is appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
… by Lord Kitchener, arrived in South Africa early in 1900. With greatly increased troop numbers, Roberts set about … and Natal. This was achieved in the first…
PlaceThe Old Presidency Museum, Bloemfontein
… 1888. Presidents F.W. Reitz (1888–95) and M.T. Steyn (1896-1900) also Resided in the Building until; the British occupation of Bloemfontein on 13 March 1900…
EventBritish Withdraw from Colesburg Area during the South African War
… 14 February 1900 British Withdraw from Colesburg Area during the South …
PlaceMowbray Town Hall, Main Road, Mowbray
… architect JC Tully, of Tully & Waters, and was erected in 1900. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC …
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… struggle emerging nationalism and socialist resistance 1900-1959 1900-1959 1960-1994 Related … story Contribute to the site …
PlaceFourteen Streams
… skirmishes at the Fourteen Streams bridge on 28 March 1900, the village was returned to the Cape on 6 May 1900 when Boer troops under Gen SP du Toit…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… African National Congress (ANC), founded this school in 1900. He was also a friend of the Bhengu family. Dube’s …
PlaceAirlie, a Railway Station near Waterval Onder
… Diamond Hill during the Second Anglo-Boer War, on 11 June 1900. …
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
Abstract Lionel Ngakane was a filmmaker, a writer, a director, an advocate and a political activist. Ngakane served South Africa during the apartheid era…
Article“Fees will Fall, Not Us”: A glance at Stellenbosch University
In Kadzamira Modjadji’s MatieMedia newspaper article about Fees Must Fall he quoted students who described the movement as revolutionary since protests against…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
In May 1963, the Cape Times announced the launch of ‘a national art exhibition, open to South African artists of all races’. The first iteration of Art South…
The Battle of Square Hill
Participation as combatants in the First World War was reserved for men of “European descent”. [i] According to Article 7 of the South African Defence Force…
PlaceAlverstone, a Railway Station near Drummond
… (when Richard Webster became Chief Justice of England in 1900, he chose the title Lord Alverstone because it was the …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Abraham, Peter. Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Basner,…
Event33 American airmen arrive in Durban on a mission to launch a long-range missile
On 7 May 1960, two American transports descended on Durban with 33 airmen on board to prepare for a mission to launch a long-range rocket which the United…
PlaceWagon Museum
This Museum is situated on the same premises as the First 'Raadsaal' in Bloemfontein and houses a collection of historic wagons and carriages such as the…
EventTransvaal Republic tries Chief Malebogo
… location.Chief Malebogo languished in prison until 1900, when the British authorities allowed him to return to …
PlaceStasiegebou, Sannaspos
… Century. During the Battle of Sannaspos on 31 March 1900 the Building provided shelter for the Q Battery of the …
PlaceAlbertinia, Mossel Bay- The Garden Route
… Village some 50 km West of Mossel Bay. It was laid out in 1900 on the farm Grootfontein and became a Municipality in … Village some 50 km West of Mossel Bay…
EventBotha’s Pass in Natal is under attack by General Buller’s forces
… British forces at Ladysmith in Natal on 28 February, 1900. The British forces had been under siege by the Boers …
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… that would cater for Black women. Between 1898 and 1900, the Kaffirfontein residential area was upgraded. Waaihoek was the larger area, and by the end of…