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81Historic Hartebeespoort Dam - the battle against pollution
A historic dam is threatened by pollution and a remediation project is launched to save it
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64South Africa: Vredefort Dome, crater impact site(History of towns)
Vredefort is a small town situated in the Vredefort Dome impact crater. It is part of the LejweleputswaDistrictMunicipality. The town is a rural farming town with only a few businesses. Farmers in the...
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68Boer War
Boers (from Dutch boer, farmer, husbandman), name given to the Dutch settlers in South Africa. They began to settle there in the 17th century and were augmented by some 200 Huguenots in 1688 and succeeding years, and later by Germans. The British attempt to exert control over the Dutch Boer republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State in South Africa led to the conflict known as the Boer War.
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70John Robertson McGregor's vintage postcards and postal censorship
These postcards all had to pass through the military censors as the Anglo-Boer War was still in full swing when he sent them.
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69Boer War : Battle of Willow Grange
“Halt! Who goes daar?!” The Boer sentry’s rather lame attempt to pass himself off as an Englishman cut no ice with the British soldiers crouched a few metres below the crest. (Bear in mind you're in...
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53Northern Cape Routes
Anglo Boer Route The war between Great Britain and the Boer Republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State broke out on 11 October 1899 and those living in the Northern Cape region of the Cape Colony were...
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59South African Boerboels
The Boerboel of South Africa got an interesting history. It is said that when Jan van Riebeeck came to the Cape in 1652, he brought his own dog to protect him and his family in this wild and unknown country....
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