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The Building of Hartbeespoort Dam – Monument to a visionary
General Hendrik Schoeman has carved his place in history by his role in the first Anglo Boer War and especially the controversy surrounding his role and actions during the Second Anglo Boer War. His violent death [...]
The first natives of the Magalies
Left: The fossilised skull of ‘Mrs Ples’ – in fact a young A. africanis male Long before the marauding impis of Mzilikaats, the herders of Mogalie, the smiths of the early Iron Age or the Boers [...]
The Battle of Silkaatsnek 11 July 1900 – Armageddon of the mountain
Left: British forces guarding Silkaatsnek. The Battle of Silkaatsnek took place five weeks after the British forces marched into Pretoria, fully expecting a quick cessation of hostilities. After the Battle of Diamond Hill, which the British [...]
Silkaatsnek – What’s in a name?
Left: British forces in the Hartbeespoort area People traveling from the vicinity of Hartbeespoort towards the bushveld in Northwest, have to cross the Magaliesberg either over Kommandonek or Silkaatsnek if they don’t go over the Dam [...]
Watery grave for war veteran
Left: A DH9 - similar to the one that crashed into the Hartbeespoort Dam The murky waters of Hartbeespoort Dam hide many relics from the past, but certainly one of the most interesting is the wreck of an [...]
The Battle of Silkaatsnek – A soldier out of place
Left: The British force under Genl Ian Hamilton after Silkaatsnek was recaptured on 6 August 1900. Ever since the fall of Pretoria the Magaliesberg range has been at the centre of military operations to the North [...]
Hendrik Schoeman – The disgrace of a Boer general
Left: General Hendrik Schoeman As the Battle of Silkaatsnek was raging at Uitval, watching from his stoep on his farm Schoemansrust was General Hendrik Schoeman, the elderly Boer general who had accepted that the war was [...]
When the Iron Age reached the Magalies
The Magaliesberg and the adjacent valleys still harbour the remains of communities who occupied the area for many centuries before the first itinerant farmers, the European missionaries, the big game hunters or even the marauders of [...]
Where baboons go
In the winter of 1900 the Anglo Boer War raged all over the Magaliesberg. Bloemfontein and Pretoria, the capitals of the Boer republics, have both been occupied by the British forces and, contrary to the British [...]
Flying boats on Hartbeespoort – Memory of a romantic past
Flying boats in most people’s minds conjure up images of a time of great decorum in travel – when huge ocean liners were the primary form of international travel, when passenger aircraft just began to match [...]
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Slang in die Gras
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Slang in die Gras
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Dam al weer vrot
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