de Graaff and his wife, Cornelia Reynet. In the 18th century, the first mounted commandos of the Dutch settlers reached the area where Graaff-Reinet currently...

Graaff-Reinet Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as...

was a founding member of the Cape Parliament, in which he represented Graaff-Reinet, and was prominent in fighting the Eastern Province Separatist League...

Commando Katberg Commando Murraydeen Commando Somerset East Commando Stormberg Commando Cately Commando East London Commando Amatola Commando Graaff-Reinet...

Rebellion' of 1795 where after the Boers declared Graaff-Reinet an independent republic, the Republic of Graaff-Reinet. Following the Invasion of the Cape Colony...

The Commando System was a mostly voluntary, part-time force of the South African Army, but in their role as local militia the units were often deployed...

acting Governor of the Cape Colony A Dutch Reformed Church is founded in Graaff Reinet A Moravian Mission is founded at Genadendal 23 June – Sebastiaan Cornelis...

about 40 kilometres north-east of Graaff-Reinet. In September 1839, after the company of Gerrit Maritz left Graaff-Reinet to go northwards, those that stayed...

his Graaff-Reinet commando to meet any attack across the northern section of the frontier. Then while the Cape, Stellenbosch and Swellendam commandos advanced...

31 October 1899) was a Boer general and politician. Kock was born in Graaff-Reinet the son of Johannes Lambertus Kock and Elsje Magdalena Smit. His father...

casualties and sixty, including Lötter, were captured. He was taken to Graaff-Reinet for his trial, and charged with treason, murdering unarmed British scouts...

Christoffel Lötter was a Trekboer (Pioneer Farmer) in the Graaff-Reinet district during the British first annexation of the Cape in 1795, and was a representative...

Artillerymen carrying two 80 mm field cannons to scout the area around Graaff Reinet where they engaged in a skirmish with 500 native tribes and defeated...

December 1901 he had recovered sufficiently to be taken to the gaol in Graaff-Reinet.: p. 148.  Scheepers faced 16 charges in a court martial: 7 of murder...

Beaufort Commando Part of Natal Command in late 1970s. Originally named Empangeni/Richards Bay Commando. The unit was renamed Insele Commando on March 2...

and Middelburg, where they derailed a train. The commando then moved southwards through the Graaff-Reinet and Murraysburg districts, past Prince Albert to...

Johanna Petronella Rautenbach (1819-around 1908) in the district of Graaff-Reinet, South Africa who migrated to the Orange Free State where they lived...

York: Avon Books, 1979. ISBN 0-380-72001-9 A de V Minnaar (June 1987). "Graaff-Reinet and the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)". South African Military History...

Cape. Petrus Lafras Uys was chosen as trek leader. At the same time at Graaff-Reinet, Jan Gerritze Bantjes heard about the exploratory trek to Port Natal...

of Graaff-Reinet and simply known as Bo-Zeekoeirivier (Upper Hippopotamus River). Farmers had to undertake long and arduous journeys to Graaff-Reinet for...

this list: List of heritage sites in Albany List of heritage sites in Graaff-Reinet List of heritage sites in Port Elizabeth "Declared Sites | SAHRA". "9/2/009/0011...

details Born Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819-09-17)17 September 1819 Graaff Reinet, Cape Colony Died 19 May 1901(1901-05-19) (aged 81) Potchefstroom, South...

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migrants, established a magistracy at Swellendam in 1745 and another at Graaff Reinet in 1786, and declared the Gamtoos River as the eastern frontier of the...

and name, the mountain was Coenraad de Buys, a colonist who fled from Graaff Reinet after a failed rebellion in 1795. He settled near the mountain in 1820...

the new army of the Union of South Africa as a district officer at Graaff-Reinet. He opposed the Maritz rebellion of 1914 and tried in vain to persuade...

British. Andries was born the fourth son of Andries Petrus Cronjé (Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, 7 April 1811 – Potchefstroom, North West, 19 September...

for his actions, and the force was called "Die Vlugkommado" or Flight Commando. He was further accused, unjustly, of causing the death of Uys by deliberately...

region. However, Philippolis became a base from which a number of deadly commandos against the San people were organised within a year of the Griqua arrival...

white settlers, and the Potchefstroom governance authorized a punitive commando under the command of Piet Potgieter and M. W. Pretorius. The tribesmen...