Boer is an Afrikaans word which refers to farmers. The killing of white farmers is a highly emotive issue in South Africa. Some conservative groups say the farmers are victims of a genocide and ...

A spring hare collected in South Africa in 1901, during the Boer War, a bitter colonial war between the British Empire and ...

Whereas Jan Smuts was to be largely forgotten after his defeat in South Africa 1948 election Nelson Mandela became an ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the execution of Edmund Campion, the deposing of Pope John XII, ...

Journal of African History 'These essays form a lively and thought-provoking late addition to a whole body of writing by historians about Anglo-South African relations during the course of the ...

In 1899, Canada agreed to send volunteers to serve under British command in the Boer War. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada C-007986, Montreal soldiers of C Company South African ...

Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War (1899–1902) In January 1984, the century-old library of the NZAV housed on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam was stormed by anti-apartheid activists.