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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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleThe Aftermath of the war
… The Second Anglo-Boer War resulted in heavy loss of life for both the Boers … in March 1902. On 11 April 1902 preliminary meetings among Boer representatives…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… After the Anglo-Boer War, there were six British colonies in South Africa. … their freedom and independence back. This was the first Anglo-Boer War. The…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… the ways in which the politics and culture of the Boer Republics clashed with the modernising thrust of the … resources, for advantage and for wealth. Even…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… the South African War of 1899-1902 (also known as the Anglo-Boer War, or Boer War), the British began focussing their … the Treaty of Vereeniging , which had…
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 …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… caused due to increasing tension between the independent Boer States (the Transvaal and the Orange Free State) and the … in Potchefstroom – leading to the…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… an exaggerated kind, in which the hero was the Afrikaner Boer. He was pictured, first of all, trying to build a … Transvaal. In 1881, after the Boer victory…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… they outstripped the productive capacity of most of the Boer farmers. In the words of Mr Hemming: "...It is an … The issue of land and labour had to be…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… (16 December 1838), leading to the founding of the first Boer Republic in Natal. The Anglo-Boer War The Voortrekkers in Natal moved northeast … the two Boer…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… Library gardens in Polokwane. 20 April, A statue of the Anglo Boer War (South African War) in front of the East London City … Available at [Accessed 21 April…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… trader moves to Pretoria , the capital of the fledgling Boer Republic, in the late 1870s. 1886 The discovery of … and work seekers from Southern Africa…
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… economic and social conditions in the cities. Both the Anglo-Boer War and the First World War had forever transformed …
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… cosmopolitan character before the South African War (Anglo-Boer War) can be ascribed to the various population groups, … other businesses in Bloemfontein in…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… and economic rights of Coloureds. However, after the Anglo-Boer War/South African War when the possibility of a white … Britain had conquered the two Boer…