Smuts is well known in South Africa as a major historical figure. He helped establish South African autonomy while still a ...

Those two main objects were the conquest of the Boer Republics and, later ... What was more serious, they shook my faith in all political leaders. The outbreak of the Great War in August 1914 swept ...

In 1886, British authorities in South Africa were shocked by the speed with which Boer farmers had decimated ... the dodo-team leader, when their animals would be resurrected.

The Boer Republics declared war on Britain on 11 October ... of young Tory MPs who specialised in harassing their own party leaders – the 'Hughligans'. From May 1903 Churchill found himself ...

He would be for the next fifty years either Taoiseach (prime minister) or President of the Republic of Ireland. He died in 1973 at the age of 92. Michael Collins: The legendary IRA leader and ...

In fact, that luckless campaign was perhaps summed up best by the fact that Nathaniel Phillips and Rhys Williams – the former ...

Viljoen’s paternal grandfather, a deeply religious man, fought in the Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902) for the Boer republics against the invading ... Nelson Mandela, who was a member of the ANC and SACP ...

Secondly, of course, the leaders of the white community could have sought some ... The Rhodesian example suggests that one way or another the Boer republics would have found a way of supplying ...

The British and Boer republics took over from the Dutch from 1815 to 1910 ... and so on. Madiba believed that a leader must forfeit some professional or personal privileges for the sake of the ...