South Africa
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White South Africans who fought in the long ‘Border War’ to maintain apartheid now find themselves in a country run by their former enemies. Gary Baines examines their continuing struggle to come to terms with the conflict and their efforts to have their voices heard. |
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C.H.N. Routh records the travels and travails of the Boer pioneers Published in 1951, History Today, Volume: 1 Issue: 5
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The battle of Cuito Cuanavale was a key moment in the smokescreen conflict of the Cold War played out in southern Africa. Gary Baines looks at the ways in which opposing sides are now remembering the event. |
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Peter Donaldson examines how the British people reacted to the various stages of the South African war of 1899-1902. |
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Richard Cavendish remembers the Union of South Africa's first election campaign in September 1910. |
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The killing of 69 black South Africans on March 21st, 1960 was a turning point: the world judged apartheid to be morally bankrupt and the political agitation that ensued would eventually overturn white supremacy, writes Gary Baines. |
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White South Africans who fought in the long ‘Border War’ to maintain apartheid now find themselves in a country run by their former enemies. Gary Baines examines their continuing struggle to come to terms with the conflict and their efforts to have their voices heard. |
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Michael Willis focuses on the origins of the Boer War in a way that could make for a stimulating role-play. |
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Damian O’Connor examines the motives of the man who started the conflict. |
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On May 31st, 1902, the Peace of Vereeniging was signed, ending the Second Boer War between Britain and the two Afrikaner republics of Transvaal and the Orange Free State. |
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Richard Cavendish charts the founding of Cape Town, on April 7th, 1652. |
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'Frankly I am ashamed of being a Briton for the treatment we have meted out to the Boers as revealed by you and so justly condemned in your pages’ - John Burns to W. T. Stead. Published in History Today, 2001
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Richard Cavendish describes the relief of Mafeking, following a seven-month siege, on May 16th/17th, 1900. |
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David Nash argues that opposition to the Second Boer War began the tradition of peace politics that has flourished through the twentieth century. |
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J.E. Spence considers the interface between ideological and geopolitical factors in the struggle for supremacy in Southern Africa. |
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Frank McDonough looks at recent thinking on the origins of the war of 1899-1902 Published in History Review, Issue: 26
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