The Battle of Blaauwberg, also known as the Battle of Cape Town, fought near Cape Town on Wednesday 8 January 1806, was a small but significant military...

Battle of Blaauwberg at present-day Bloubergstrand. The Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814 confirmed the transfer of sovereignty to Great Britain. Traders of...

Republic following the 1802 Treaty of Amiens. It was re-occupied by the British following the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806, and British possession affirmed...

The Battle of Blood River (16 December 1838) was fought on the bank of the Ncome River, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between 464 Voortrekkers...

reoccupied the colony after the Battle of Blaauwberg and it remained a British colony until the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The French...

south of the rail line in Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa. Peace was made under the tree on 10 January 1806 after the Battle of Blaauwberg, thereby...

Bechuanaland (later part of the Cape Colony). Following the Battle of Blaauwberg (1806) Britain had officially acquired the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa...

first casualties of the Battle of Blaauwberg drowned when their boat was driven by the large surf into the rocky point at the end of Stadler road and...

description or an endorsement of white minority rule in South Africa. Proponents of baasskap constituted the largest faction of apartheid ideologues in the...

between Bloubergstrand and Melkbosstrand in the Cape Colony. The Battle of Blaauwberg takes place between the British and the Dutch colonists. 10 January...

continued to fight and was shot in the Battle of Rooiwal, 11 April 1902. Maritz rebellion (1914) — took place at the start of World War I by some Boers who were...

crowd of people who had assembled outside the police station in the township of Sharpeville in the then Transvaal Province of the then Union of South...

Congress in 1950 and describes his organisation of guerrilla tactics and underground organisations to battle against apartheid. In 1961, Mandela was convicted...

of the Vaal river.: 230  Commandant-General Andries Pretorius led the commandos against the British forces later that year, leading to the Battle of Boomplaats...

1806. The unit saw action during the Invasion of the Cape Colony in 1795 and the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806. The corps was noted for its skill in fighting...

month of office, when he proclaimed: "Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria...

became permanent after British forces defeated the Dutch at the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806. At the time, the colony was home to about 26,000 colonists...

This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....

establishing British rule in South Africa in combination with the Battle of Blaauwberg. The fort has never fired a shot from its guns. Fort Frederick was...

Cape Colony. At the Battle of Blaauwberg (6 January 1806), the Swellendam Commando held the British off long enough for the rest of the Batavian army to...

Venda (/ˈvɛndə/ VEN-də) or Tswetla, officially the Republic of Venda (Venda: Riphabuliki ya Venḓa; Afrikaans: Republiek van Venda), was a Bantustan in...

dominance by white people over people of other races. While the bulk of this legislation was enacted after the election of the National Party government in...

The Battle of Ventersdorp was a violent confrontation on 9 August 1991 in the South African town of Ventersdorp between supporters of the far-right Afrikaner...

founded in 1839 after a Voortrekker victory against the Zulus at the Battle of Blood River. The area was previously named Natália by Portuguese sailors...

was a group of four conflict photographers, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek, and João Silva, active within the townships of South Africa...

Battle of Blaauwberg: British infantry force troops of the Batavian Republic in the Dutch Cape Colony to withdraw. January 9 The Dutch commandant of Cape...

Bophuthatswana (/ˌboʊpuːtətˈswɑːnə/, lit. 'gathering of the Tswana people'), officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana (Tswana: Repaboleki ya Bophuthatswana;...

of South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha. From 1975 onwards, the South African Defence Force (SADF) found itself embroiled in conventional battles...

out of 80 seats. The main opposition party, the Basotho National Party, won the remaining 1 seat, yet with a 24% share of voters. Allegations of vote...

as governor of the Dutch Cape Colony, and had been forced to capitulate after being defeated by British forces at the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806. Janssens...