events that happened during 1881 in South Africa. Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: John Gordon Sprigg. Governor...

from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and Boers of the Transvaal (as the South African Republic was known while under British...

hill on the night of 26–27 February 1881. Colley's motive for occupying Majuba Hill, near Volksrust, now in South Africa, may have been anxiety that the Boers...

Seville in his 7th-century Etymologiae XIV.5.2. suggests "Africa" comes from the Latin aprica, meaning "sunny". Massey, in 1881, stated that Africa is derived...

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798...

South Africa is a Christian majority nation with Islam being a minority religion, practised by roughly 1.6% of the total population. Islam in South Africa...

January 1881. Following the Boer declaration of independence for the Transvaal in 1880 the British suffered a series of disastrous defeats in attempting...

to be the main means of transport across the South African plains. Because of this, much effort was put in grass mowers by the British for the production...

Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange...

that happened during 1955 in South Africa. Monarch: Queen Elizabeth II. Governor-General and High Commissioner for Southern Africa: Ernest George Jansen....