TOPIC 6: THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR AND UNION

How did the period 1899–1910 shape 20th-century South Africa?

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Paul Kruger

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Randlords in the early days of the Witwatersrand Gold Rush

An etching of the Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain

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Sir Joseph RobinsonThe entrepreneur Barney Barnato made a fortune in Kimberley buying old diamond

claims, mining them, and then selling them to Rhodes. He then used the money to invest in the Witwatersrand Gold Rush.

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Top Row: Horace Farquhar, Esq.; Albert Grey, Esq.; Alfred Beit, Esq.

Middle Row: His Grace the Duke of Fife, K.T., P.C.; Hon. C. J. Rhodes

His Grace the Duke of Abercorn, K.G., P.C.

Bottom Row: Lord Grifford, V.C.; Herbert Canning, Esq.; George Cawston, Esq.

THE FIRST BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY, 1889

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This picture of a stope in a Witwatersrand mine shows the way that the gold-bearing

reefs are slanted.

A rich specimen of gold ore from the current Witwatersrand mines. Here the

grains of gold are thickly dispersed throughout a matrix of carbon-rich rock.

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A traditional African homestead around the turn of the century

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An illustration from an 1896 Paris newspaper showing the arrest of Jameson

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Jan Smuts in 1895

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The Long Cecil gun manufactured in the workshops of De Beers during the siege of Kimberley

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A map of southern Africa in 1900, showing Britain’s Cape Colony, the Basutoland Protectorate (administered by the Cape Colony), Britain’s Natal Colony, the Orange Free State,

the South African Republic, and Swaziland (administered by the South African Republic), as well as parts of German South-West Africa, Britain’s Bechuanaland Protectorate

and Rhodesia, and Portuguese East Africa

Cape Colony

Basutoland Protectorate

Natal ColonyOrange Free State

German South-West Africa

Bechuanaland Protectorate

Rhodesia

Portuguese East Africa

Mafikeng Pretoria

Johannesburg

Durban

LadysmithColenso

Bloemfontein

KimberleyMagersfontein

Cape Town

Swaziland

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Boers at Spioenkop, 1900

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Organised by Mohandas Gandhi, the Indian Ambulance Corps helped wounded Brits after many battles, including the Battle of Spioenkop.

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Major General Baden-Powell and staff at Mafeking in 1900

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A cartoon showing President Paul Kruger fleeing into exile while British soldiers paint the Orange Free State red, symbolising the victory of the British in the South African War

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General Christiaan de Wet

General Louis Botha

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Green Point Common in Cape Town was used as a transit camp for prisoners of war to be shipped to remote islands.

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Emily Hobhouse, whose ashes are buried at the foot of the 1913 Women’s Memorial in Bloemfontein

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Bloemfontein Concentration Camp

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Black men fought on both sides of the war

A Black family in a concentration camp

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General Koos De la Rey is celebrated in the controversial song De la Rey, most notably sung by Bok van Blerk in 2006

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General Lord Herbert Kitchener Lord Alfred Milner

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The beginning of the Treaty of Vereeniging, signed on 31 May 1902, at Melrose House, Pretoria

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John X. Merriman, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony

from 1908 to 1910

Mohandas Gandhi, who led a protest against the Transvaal’s Asiatic Registration Act of 1906

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The delegation of prominent Cape politicians to protest against the racist provisions of the draft South Africa Act, 4 August 1909

Seated from left are John Tengo Jabavu, A. Abdurahman, former Cape Prime Minister William Schreiner, Walter Rubusana and Matt Fredericks. Standing at the back are Thomas Makipela, J. Gerrans, Daniel Dwanya and D.J. Lenders.

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The financial district of Johannesburg

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A Boer house burning with all belongings strewn out front, circa 1901

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The Boer High Command and the British High Command meeting in 1901

A cartoon in Die Amsterdamer showing Kitchener saying to

Chamberlain, ‘Ah, now it is sharp enough to butcher them’

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The 1910 Union of South Africa Cabinet

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The 1914 South African Native National Congress delegation to London in 1914, with Sol Plaatje sitting at the front right

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