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    brother Lodewijk Napoleon Bonaparte. The "King of Holland" founded an "Orde van de Unie", (English: Order of the Union, later dubbed "Order of Holland" then...
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    The Order of the Union (Dutch: Orde van de Unie) was a chivalric order established in 1806 by Louis Bonaparte, younger brother of Napoleon I, for the Kingdom...
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    1861 (in Dutch) Luc Eckhout, "Het admiralenboek", Amsterdam 1992 (in Dutch) O. Schutte, "De Orde van de Unie", Zutphen 1985 (in Dutch)The 1781 battle...
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    The Union of South Africa (Dutch: Unie van Zuid-Afrika; Afrikaans: Unie van Suid-Afrika; pronunciation) was the historical predecessor to the present-day...
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    officers in the Dutch Navy. Willem Bloys van Treslong (1529–1594), a captain of the Gueux de mer Jacob Arnout Bloys van Treslong (1756–1826), also called Jacob...
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    Grootkruis Orde van de Unie, Februari 17, 1807 Grootkruis Orde van de Reünie, Februari 22, 1812 Commandeur in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw Commandeur de la...
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    holiday by the Department of Basic Education in 2022. Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter previously declared in January 2023 that there would be a load shedding...
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    1904 sentiment was growing for some form of self-government. The Orangia Unie (Orange Union Party) was formally constituted in May 1906, after several...
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    treason. Similar violent methods towards Volkstaat were employed by the Orde van die Dood in the 1980s. The Front National has called for the re-establishment...
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  • Students, NUSAS, and Student Representative Council, SRC, president), Philip van der Merwe (SRC vice-president) and Raphie Kaplinsky (from Radical Society)...
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    Natal Indian Congress NLP NNP NP NPP NRP NUSAS Occupy Orangia Unie Oranjewerkers Orde Boerevolk PAVN PFP Progressive Party (Cape Colony) Progressive...
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  • march were Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa and Sophia Williams-De Bruyn. A representatives of each race group in South Africa carried 14,000...
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    first leader was Colin Eglin, who was succeeded by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and then Zach de Beer. Another prominent member was Harry Schwarz who had led...
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  • killings. For most of its existence, BOSS was headed by General Hendrik van den Bergh, who, while special Security Adviser to Prime Minister John Vorster...
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    military engagement between the crew of a Portuguese fleet led by Francisco de Almeida and the indigenous ǃUriǁʼaekua ("Goringhaiqua" in Dutch approximate...
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  • advancement of the Afrikaner people. It was founded by H. J. Klopper, H. W. van der Merwe, D. H. C. du Plessis and the Rev. Jozua Naudé in 1918 as Jong Zuid...
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    Bloemfontein), D.H. van Coller (Heilbron), Christoffel Cornelis Froneman (Winburg and Ladybrand), J.N. Jacobs (Boshof), C. A. van Niekerk (Kroonstad)...
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  • main entrance. During the years of apartheid, Observatory was one of the few de facto "grey" suburbs where all races lived together. On the evening of 30...
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  • had become mired, the head of BOSS, Hendrik van den Bergh, resigned in June 1978 and was replaced by Alec van Wyk.: 120 : 122  The Bureau for State Security...
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  • Minister of Information, and a rising star in the National Party; and Hendrik van den Bergh, the Head of the Bureau for State Security. A series of internal...
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  • Gerdener, E.G. Jansen, J.J. Serfontein and M.D.C. De Wet Nel. Verslag van die Kleurvraagstuk-Kommissie van die Herenigde Nasionale Party [Sauer Report, 1948]...
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     112. "Kaap de Goede Hoop". De VOC site. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2013. J. A. Heese, Die Herkoms van die Afrikaner...
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    In July 1989, Cornelius Lottering, a member of a breakaway AWB group Orde van die Dood (Order of Death), attempted to assassinate Allan by placing a...
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    "Agtergrondartikel Die Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners" [Background to the Association of True Afrikaaners]. De Roepstem (in Afrikaans). Retrieved 3...
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    each of the parties that had entered the merger: Zach de Beer, Denis Worrall and Wynand Malan. De Beer, from the dominant PFP-faction, eventually became...
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    Africa–United States relations South Africa–Ukraine relations Strait of Juan de Fuca laser incident O’Regan, Victoria (22 December 2022). "SHIPPING LANES:...
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    the northern seven provinces signed the Union of Utrecht treaty (Dutch: Unie van Utrecht), in which they decided to join forces against Spanish rule. The...
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    Representatives (Afrikaans: Raad van Verteënwoordigers) A 45-member (Indian) House of Delegates (Afrikaans: Raad van Afgevaardigdes). Under the original...
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    painter Oliver Lee Jackson in his Sharpeville Series from the 1970s. Ingrid de Kok was a child living on a mining compound near Johannesburg where her father...
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    frames In addition to a secretariat – led by Mac Maharaj of the ANC and Fanie van der Merwe of the government – and a management committee, CODESA I comprised...
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