Memoir of Hester Johanna Maria Uys, a child interned in Boer War concentrations camps in South Afirca

One of my heroes of the ABW ..As his mates saw him. And what is left of his legacy today A while back in Heilbron's cemetery. Hans Jacob Swart.....

Emily Hobhouse (1860-1926) was a Cornish campaigner and activist, most famous for bringing the appalling conditions of the British concentration camps to the attention of the British public during the...

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904), better known as Paul Kruger, and affectionately known as Uncle Paul (Afrikaans: "Oom Paul"), was State President of the South African Republic (Transvaal). He gained international renown as the face of Boer resistance against the British during the South African or Second Boer War (1899–1902). Kruger was born at Bulhoek, on his grandfather's farm in the British Cape Colony, and he grew up on the farm Vaalbank. He received…

Posts about Boer Women written by Nikita

Jopie Fourie (1878-1914), leier van die 1914-Rebellie teen die premier Louis Botha, is op 16 Desember 1914 in die omgewing van Rustenburg gevange geneem. Vandag, 100 jaar gelede, is Fourie weens hoogverraad ter dood veroordeel. Hy was die enigste deelnemer aan dié rebellie wat op hierdie wyse die hoogste prys betaal het, skryf J.B. ROUX.J.B. Roux.

Jopie Fourie sluit na die oorlog aan by die Rebellie teen Louis Botha om SWA binne te val. Genl Smuts weier om petisies vir begenadiging te ontvang vir sy teregstelling. Hy sterf voor vuurpeleton 20/12/1914. Die volgende aanhaling van Jopie "Ek kan nie insien waarom ons vir Engeland se eer moet veg nie. Wanneer ons die moord van Slagtersnek nagaan en dink aan die 30 000 vroue en kinders wat vermoor is, sien ek nie waarom ek Engeland moet help om sy eer omhoog te hou nie."

The Battle of Elands River was an engagement of the Second Boer War that took place between 4 and 16 August 1900 in western Transvaal. The battle was fought by the Elands River between a force of 2,000 to 3,000 Boers who attacked a garrison of 500 Australian, Rhodesian, Canadian and British soldiers, who were stationed at Brakfontein Drift near the Elands River to act as a garrison for a British supply dump. Over the course of 13 days, the garrison was heavily shelled and attacked with small…

The surrender of General Cronje to Lord Roberts at Paardeberg on 27 February 1900

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CHRISTIAAN FREDERICK BEYERS Is in Stellenboch gebore en geskool en trek later na Transvaal (ZAR) waar hy hom bekwaam as ‘n prokureur met ‘n praktyk in Boksburg. Hy ontvang Burgerstatus en verteenwoordig Transvaal in rugby. Hy het as ‘n toegewyde en volhardende patriot ‘n kortaf dinamiese en soms ontwykende persoonlikheid gehad. Toe die Anglo-Boereoorlog in 1899 uitbreek veg hy as ‘n gewone burger in al die groot Natalse veldslae.

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