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In contemporary South Africa, Boer and Afrikaner have often been used interchangeably. [dubious – discuss] Afrikaner directly translated means African, and thus refers to all Afrikaans-speaking people in Africa who have their origins in the Cape Colony founded by Jan Van Riebeeck. Boer is a specific group within the larger Afrikaans-speaking ...
The white settlers in Zoutpansberg had a long reputation of lawlessness, often being called typical "Back-veldt Boers". In 1864, they were inevitably incorporated into the South African Republic (Transvaal) after the Transvaal Civil War. As a district in the Republic, they had the largest native population in the South African Republic.
The Transvaal Colony (Afrikaans pronunciation: [transˈfɑːl]) was the name used to refer to the Transvaal region during the period of direct British rule and military occupation between the end of the Second Boer War in 1902 when the South African Republic was dissolved, and the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
English: In December 1880, the First Boer War began. The Boers ambushed and attacked a British column travelling from Lydenburg to Pretoria on 20 December at the Battle of Bronkhorstspruit. The Boers ambushed and attacked a British column travelling from Lydenburg to Pretoria on 20 December at the Battle of Bronkhorstspruit.
The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, abbreviated ZAR; Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek), also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer republic in Southern Africa which existed from 1852 to 1902, when it was annexed into the British Empire as a result of the Second Boer War.
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The Boer War Its Causes and Its Interest to Canadians: with a Glossary of Cape Dutch and Kaffir Terms. Toronto: Samuel Biggar. ISBN 9780665264979. Callinicos, Luli (1980). A People's History of South Africa: Working life, 1886-1940. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. Cammack, Diana Rose (1990). The Rand at War, 1899-1902 The Witwatersrand and the Anglo ...
The Scandinavian Corps was founded by railway engineer Christer Uggla [7] at the outbreak of the Second Boer War in 1899, and was part of the Army of the Transvaal Boer Republic. The Corps consisted of 114 men, including officers, of which 46 from Sweden, 13 from Norway, 24 from Denmark, 18 from Finland, 7 from Germany, 4 from The Netherlands ...