Graaff-Reinet is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is the oldest town in the province and the fourth oldest town in South Africa...
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Jacobus Nicolaas Boshof (31 January 1808 – 21 April 1881) was a South African (Boer) statesman, a late-arriving member of the Voortrekker movement, and...
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Afrikaner figures who are notable in their areas of expertise. Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff: State President of the Orange Free State Louis Botha: former Prime...
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student services Nicolaas Bloembergengebouw, named after physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen – science, NMR spectroscopy Robert J. Van de Graafflaboratorium...
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painter Jacobus Golius (1596–1667), Dutch mathematician Jacobus Arnoldus Graaff (1863–1927), South African politician Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911)...
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the then-ruling National Party, against former United Party leader De Villiers Graaff supported by the New Republic Party, and Vice-Chancellor of the University...
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and the Dutch Reformed Church in Aberdeen, also both in the Presbytery of Graaff-Reinet, were also founded in the year 1855. The other four congregations...
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oldest congregation in this Synod and was founded in 1846, 54 years after Graaff-Reinet. In the entire NG Church it was the 34th foundation, all of which...
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Elliot Fort Beaufort – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort Graaff-Reinet – Cornelis van der Graaff and his wife Hester Reynet Grahamstown – John Graham Humansdorp...
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in 1930. He was stationed in Montagu from 1906 to 1912 and thereafter in Graaff-Reinet until 1915. He also undertook a journey on behalf of the Dutch Reformed...
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Arderne, Somerset East Jeremias Frederik Ziervogel , Graaff-Reinet Thomas Nicolaas German Muller, Graaff-Reinet Charles Lennox Stretch, Fort Beaufort Richard...
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1925, he also became CEO of Royal Dutch Shell. Colijn served as editor of De Standaard from 1922 to 1939. In 1922, Colijn accepted the political leadership...
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The Griekwa captain Andries Waterboer dies and is succeeded by his son Nicolaas Waterboer. The Voortrekker Hendrik Potgieter dies and is succeeded by his...
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Koos Bekker, businessman, billionaire chairman of Naspers. Sir David de Villiers Graaff, 3rd Baronet businessman. Markus Jooste, businessman and the former...
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Hermannsburg Missionary Society on the Morgenzon farm near Rustenburg. At Graaff-Reinet he bought wagons and returned to the Transvaal, where he disposed...
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Marthinus Prinsloo (category People from Graaff-Reinet)
was born of Nicolaas Frans Prinsloo (1813-1890) and Isabella Johanna Petronella Rautenbach (1819-around 1908) in the district of Graaff-Reinet, South...
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legislature Majority Opposition party United Party Opposition leader De Villiers Graaff History Election(s) 1961 election Legislature term(s) 4 years, 5 months...
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proclaimed: Drakenstein (Paarl), Swartland (Malmesbury), Tulbagh, Swellendam, Graaff-Reinet and Uitenhage. Under the British, new districts were created at George...
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Ryneveld Shadley van Schalkwyk Stiaan van Zyl Kyle Verreynne Dane Vilas De Villiers Graaff Roy Virgin Michael Voss Tayo Walbrugh Peter Walker Martin Walters...
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legislature Majority Opposition party United Party Opposition leader De Villiers Graaff History Election(s) 1970 election Legislature term(s) 3 years, 7 months...
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politician, and President of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1915–2002) De Villiers Graaff, United Party opposition leader (1913–1999) Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, journalist...
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Helena. He died in Pretoria on 10 June 2001. He completed his High School at Graaff-Reinet Volkskool. He completed his post school studies at Stellenbosch University...
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Chief Justice of South Africa from 1943 to 1950. Watermeyer was born in Graaff-Reinet in 1880. He was educated at Stellenbosch Gymnasium, Bath College...
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September 2015.[permanent dead link] "Inventory of the private collection of J de Klerk" (PDF). University of Free State Archive. Archived from the original...
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separate congregation in Somerset East in 1825, the area was split between the Graaff-Reinet and the southern portion of the Uitenhage congregations. The magistrate...
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State of Goshen, named after the biblical Land of Goshen, was founded by Nicolaas Claudius Gey van Pittius in October 1882 in the neighbouring area called...
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Nicolaas Janse van Rensburg, Johan van Zyl and Hermanus Barend du Plessis. Colonel Snyman had given the orders. Former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock...
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Kimberley. Although no formally surveyed boundaries existed, Griqua leader Nicolaas Waterboer claimed the diamond fields were situated on land belonging to...
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extension of President Brand Street, just south of the Bloemspruit. Johan Nicolaas Brits built his simple 'hartbeeshuisie' about 300 metres from the spring...
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