The First Boer War of 1880 to 1881 has been described as a short but defining conflict that reshaped South Africa’s political landscape. "It's just simply a war of invaders at the expense of the ...

Like a million other South Africans, the Stoltz family was up at cockcrow one morning last week, all ready to cast its votes in the first general election since 1948. Grandpa Stoltz, 75, stumped out ...

IN order to understand the events which are occurring in South Africa, it is not enough to examine the terms of the Convention between Great Britain and the Transvaal, and to limit one’s inquiry to ...

IN South Africa we have two great problems of a racial nature. There is the conflict between the Boer and the Briton, or if you prefer, between the Afrikaans-speaking and the English-speaking South ...

SOUTH AFRICA has been called a ‘Two Miles an Hour Country.’ Its early history was made on springless wagons, behind countless spans of oxen, trekking, generation after generation, into the veldt. Two ...

A short article from South African History Online about the role of black soldiers and workers in the second Boer war. The South African War of 1899-1902 was essentially a 'White mans' war, fought to ...

Seldom if ever had a new state come into being with less enthusiasm or more foreboding. As Republic Day began, cold, drenching rain poured down on Pretoria’s windswept streets, reducing the joyous ...

A chant of a song called “Kill the Boer” at a political rally in South Africa over the weekend sparked pushback in both South Africa and the United States, including from South African-born ...