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PlacePhilippolis, Free State
… Voortrekker Road. Further down the southern stretch is Griqua leader Adam Kok II’s original green-doored house. … Reformed Church, consecrated in 1871 on the…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
… was the coloured frontier people from the Cape called the Griqua, who attacked communities and captured women and … the contribution made by the Voortrekkers…
PlaceGriqualand East
… in their turn, gave it over the following year to the Griqua , a Khoikhoi group who, under the leadership of Adam … their ancestral lands in the Northern…
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… Trust Land. Occupied by the Tswana-speaking Batlhaping and Griqua people. It was scheduled as the Schmidtsdrift Native … The threat of relocation in the 1950…
PlaceGriqualand West
… arid areas of the northern Cape. One such group was the Griqua who, by the end of the 18th century, had moved into …
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… in turn, were ousted from the region by a coalition of Griqua, Tswana and Voortrekkers in 1837. During the Difaqane … Mzilikazi was ousted from the region by…
EventAdam Kok III is killed in an accident
… gives the date as 31 December 1875. He is revered by the Griqua people of the present day as the greatest of the Kok …
PlaceKokstad
… wild and beautiful part of the country was settled by the Griqua - a hardy group of frontiersmen who, after clashing … a National Monument on Main Street,…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… or Camissa, - white, Indian, Cape Khoena, amaXhosa, Griqua and Nama and he has a strong pride in this heritage. …
Khoisan Identity
… various sub-groups, including Cape Coloured, Cape Malay, Griqua, Nama, and ‘other Coloured’. The Khoisan community was … descent, for example, often…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
… valley of the Caledon River, lying to the east of the Griqua and beyond the Vaal in the grasslands of the High … by a force of "maNtatisi" warriors, for he…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
… over claims. This rivalry often led to racial conflict. Griqua leader Nicholas Waterboer Waterboer asked for British … on the diamond fields led to a…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… captured after years of waging war on white settlers. 1834 Griqua, Kora and Rolong forces, in the company of Wesleyan …
ArticleKora
… Afrikanders led by Jacobus Afrikander, and a number of Griqua rebels under Gamka Pienaar. The Korana 'raider' groups …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… that has come my way from members of the Koranna and Griqua community in Bloemfontein in whose midst the book was …
PlaceClearwater, Now Known as Griquastad- in the Northern Cape
… Society, established a Missionary Station, among the Griqua at Leeuwenkuil . The site proved too arid for … London Missionary Society, established a Station…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter II - Functions of the Missionary
… activities in connection with the Khoikhoin and later the Griqua, the maNgqika and the baSotho of Moshoeshoe there grew … London missionaries were over the…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… processes of regularisation). The names Korana and Griqua have become entrenched in South African English over … language spoken by the Korana people’. The…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… Chopi from the south of that country. The Tswana and the Griqua, forced off the diamondiferous lands, first resist …
PlaceKopanong Local Municipality, Free Sate
… where Lourens van der Post was born, Adam Kok's House (the Griqua leader) and a Kraal and structure where gunpowder was …
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… Kimberly. After the discovery of diamonds in the OFS the Griqua Chief Nicolas Waterboer claimed that the area between … slaves. Other mixed groups in the…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… that has come my way from members of the Koranna and Griqua community in Bloemfontein in whose midst the book was …
PlaceUgie, Eastern Cape
Ugie is a Town in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Ugie is situated at the Southern foot of the Drakensberg,…
PlacePondoland
… the Cape, and the following year were used by the Cape for Griqua resettlement. This was followed by the annexation of a …
ArticleThe Khoisan
… Afrikanders led by Jacobus Afrikander, and a number of Griqua rebels under Gamka Pienaar. The Korana 'raider' groups …
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… as it did seven categories, i.e. Cape Coloured, Malay, Griqua, Indian, Chinese, other Asiatic and ‘other Coloured’, …
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
… Smith's consent, Varden sent an army of British troops, Griqua, Kora, Rolong and a small number of Boers to attack …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter V - Political role of the mission
… beyond the Orange River, having obtained land from the Griqua Chief, Adam Kok II, who was himself under the … he pressed home the necessity of making a treat…
PlaceUpington, Northern Cape
… inhabitants. In the 1870's this Area, was inhabited by Griqua People under leadership of Klaas Lucas and of Klaas …