TNA, FCO/45/315, Robb, Minister, British Embassy South Africa, to William Wilson, 9 April 1969. 76. TNA, BW/107/8, Nicholls to King, Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Information and Culture), 28 April 1967. Platteland is an Afrikaans word referring to the countryside or rur...
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Elon Musk was born on June 28,1971 in Pretoria,South Africa.He was the eldest of three children.His father Errol Musk,a British-born South African,was an engineer.Musk spent his childhood in South Africa and at the age of 9,he got his first personal computer.This ...
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The causes of the war have provoked intense debates among historians and remain as unresolved today as during the war itself. British politicians claimed they were defending their “suzerainty” over the South African Republic (SAR) enshrined in thePretoriaand (disputably) London conventions of 188...
(SeeSouth African War.) The British were able to occupy the capital, Pretoria, in June 1900, and in September they formally annexed the Transvaal. Fighting between the Boers and British continued, however, until the resources of both Boer republics had been broken by unceasing strain against ...