In time, Kruger emerged as a leader. He started as a field cornet in the commandos, eventually becoming Commandant-General of the South African Republic. He was appointed member of a commission of the Volksraad, the republican parliament that was to draw up a constitution. People began to take notice of the young man and he […]

The Boer Republics (sometimes also referred to as Boer states) were independent self-governed republics created by the Dutch-speaking (proto Afrikaans) inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope and their descendants (variously named Trekboers, Boers and Voortrekkers, but today collectively known as Afrikaners) in mainly the northern and eastern parts of what is now the country […]

Ramaphosa is dalk oppad uit Volgens berigte oor die naweek wil sekere lede van die ANC regering Cyril Ramaphosa afdank, maar Ramaphosa self is van mening dat net die ANC Kongres hom kan afdank Ramaphosa het onlangs uitsprake gemaak wat hewige kritiek, waarskynlyk vanuit die Zuma-kamp, uitlok. Ramaphosa is egter van mening dat sekere lede […]