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ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… Causes of the War The First Anglo-Boer is also known as the First Transvaal War of Independence … Orange Free State. There were several causes of the First…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant was…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… 'South African War ( a.k.a. the Anglo-Boer War) remains the most terrible and destructive modern … Causes A number of interrelated factors led to the Second…
Timeline: World War II (1939 - 1945)
Glossary: World War II (1939 - 1945)
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CAPS Grade 4: World War II (1939 - 1945) - Term 1
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. … by the British, especially as scouts to track down Boer…
ArticleHuman rights issues during and after World War II
ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. … by the British, especially as scouts to track down Boer…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
The 1940s opened with the devastating Second World War in full swing. This decade also marked the gradual transition from a mining and agricultural economy …
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… Concentration Camps is dealt with in another chronology. Boer women, children and men unfit for service were herded … in concentration camps by the British…
Human rights issues during and after World War II with focus on Nazi Germany
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… themselves by sending young warriors to steal through the Boer lines at night. On the twenty-fourth day, the Boers … (place of refuge) mission place. It was…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… This policy was set to bring the various British colonies, Boer republics and independent African groups under common … mark the 10* January 1879 as the…
ArticleImpact of World War II: how the nature of political quest for independence in Africa changed after 1945
Note: Some grade 11 sections are under construction and still link to old content. Also note, there may be minor changes to the curriculum from year to year,…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 …
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… the British finally recognised the independence of the Boer-populated Transvaal (former province of the South … role [ix] . King Mzilikazi Image source…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… Afrikaner interests still bitter about the outcome of the Anglo Boer War of the previous decade, and what was perceived as … South African, with Louis Botha …
The War
… The flag of the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State On 9 October 1899 the … and Mafeking. This war was much longer than the First Anglo-Boer War and more…
ArticleSettler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism
… Dutch Settlement Treks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s Second Anglo-Boer War 1899 - 1902 South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917) … Colonial conquest and…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… of Afrikaner nationalism and a desire to return to the pre-Anglo-Boer War days of the independent Boer republics. In this … to increasing capitalisation of…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… , 16 December 1838, leading to the founding of the first Boer Republic in Natal. The discovery of Gold and Diamonds … their wives and children remained in…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… African War, it may be useful to read about the ‘ First Anglo-Boer War ’ 1880-1881 in SAHO’s feature on the topic. Conflicting political ideology After the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… entities competing with each other and with British and Boer colonisers for land and basic resources. This troubled … of the migration out of the Cape Colony…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… the war would be won easily, but they were wrong. The two Boer republics that were involved in the conflict were the … and Mafeking. This war was much longer…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… are defeated by the Boers, and many end up working on Boer farms. 1884 Barberton is established, with the discovery … turn their hostility against the Boers…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… the discovery of minerals and in the period following the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 . In this process it was poor White and … rather than commodity…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… to participate. One of the events at the Fair was an “Anglo-Boer War Historical Libretto”. This revue re-enacted scenes from the Anglo-Boer War (1899 –…