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… J.N. Brits trekked from the Cape Colony, crossed the Orange River and settled near a spring (fountain) in the vicinity of … was appointed British Resident of the area between the Orange and the Vaal rivers, to maintain peace between the …

… in their raid on the Mpondo kingdom around the Mzimvubu River in the battle of Mkhumbeni, which led to the death of … up to the Northeast of King Faku's kingdom and the Thukela River [8] . In 1844 King Faku ka Ngqungqushe signed a treaty … In 1840 King Faku moved his Great Palace from the Mngazi River, which was situated across a river called Mzimvubu back …

… enrolled at the Grey University College (University of the Orange Free State), obtaining the B.A. degree in 1912. After … 1918 Swart was secretary of the examination board of the Orange Free State (OFS) Education Department. During these …

… One morning he was transported to Kroonstad in the Orange Free State - OFS (now Free State Province). During the …

… ten towns or cities in three provinces (the Transvaal, the Orange Free State and Natal). From 1942, however, he settled …

… was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan, …

… Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789* at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape . She belonged …

… His parents were factory workers in the Woodstock/Salt River area. Goddard lived most of his life on the Cape Flats, …

… to establish their control over what came to be called the Orange Free State. The Orange Free State included land which had previously been … most people living in the area just north of the Orange River belonged to one of 3 main Sotho groups, the Fokeng, the …

… when the Dutch governor of the Cape made the Great Fish River the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony. The Trekboers … world The Tswana people also lived on the land across the Orange River. They had moved to that area in about the 16th … and missionaries started arriving in the area north of the Orange River after 1800. They explored areas that the Cape …

… record shows Xhosa lived on the banks of the Buffalo River in 1686 and settled at what is now Somerset East in … forest and in 1778 drove them back from the Gamtoos River to the Fish River. The emergence of Zulu King Tshaka , … of local chieftainships in what came to be known as the Orange Free State and the Transvaal before their expansion …

… The area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, originally known as Transoranje, with … the area in the early 19th century. Self-Government, the Orange Free State In August 1855, JN Boshoff succeeded … 1867, in Jagersfontein and next to the banks of the Vaal River around the Du Toit's Pan area in 1869, led to an …

… the first Europeans to make expeditions along the Zambezi River in 1851. Over the years, Livingstone continued his … on the Indian Ocean by 1856. Moving along the Zambezi River, in 1855 he became the first European to see the … as intolerant of criticism. Livingstone saw the Zambezi River as central to his dream of developing the area for …

… to accompany the third Niger Expedition up the great river. In 1864 he returned to England to report on the work …

… along the western trading routes as far north as the great river that they called Gariep, which means ‘river’. The early … of the garrison at the Cape in 1777, renamed it the Orange after the Prince of Orange. However, many still referred to it as the Groot …

… Ndlambe and his people settle to the west of the Fish River, an area from which the Dutch colonial administration … trek from the Cape and settle at Klaarwater north of the Orange River. They are called "Basters" by the colonial … cattle and attacking the various communities along the Orange and Vaal Rivers causing increased instability in the …

… just upstream from Port Alfred on the banks of the Kowie River her father had built for his family of seven children, … imprisoned, notably Hugh Lewin . Ad inserted these into orange piths or onion layers of food parcels, and into …

… her three-year jail sentence at Kroonstad Prison in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province ) then later to …

… 1999, Alberts was elected by the University of the Orange Free State as one of one hundred leading South African …

… 20 000 Xhosa people, men, women and children over the Fish River from Zuurveld in the Fourth War of Dispossession. They then establish 27 military garrisons along the River to prevent Xhosa people from returning and station more … white farmers to graze their livestock north of the Orange River, but they are not allowed to trade or erect …

… home in the south of Natal on the bank of the Umkumazi River. While growing up he discovered that he had prophetic …

… of artists that painted murals at Community House in Salt River, where his style and vision is still on display along …

… him. Mzilikazi wielded a path of destruction as far as the Orange River, annihilating all earlier inhabitants of the area. The … Mzilikazi took up all the surrounding tribes as far as the Orange River to the south and Mozambique on the north east, …

… to owe allegiance to Britain, while Transvaal and the Orange Free State had become independent Boer/Afrikaner … Organisation, largely a Cape political formation, the Orange River Colony Vigilance Association and the Transvaal …

… in 1836, at which point he trekked over the Limpopo River to present day Zimbabwe, and settled in an area between … through constant raids into their territories in the Orange and Caledon river valleys.  With the arrival of the Voortrekkers in 1836, …

… Cape; others, including the Korana, along the Orange River; and the Gonaqua, interspersed among the Xhosa in the … of the garrison at the Cape in 1777, renamed it the Orange after the Prince of Orange. However, many still …

… of colonial environmental distortion and the Salt River Estuarine & Riverine Territory by Patric Tariq Mellet, …

… few fertile areas. The most fertile part was the Caledon River Valley. The Basotho used this valley for growing crops … make a section of Basotho land in the triangle between the Orange and the Caledon rivers available to the Boers. The … the strength of the Basotho at this time. The birth of the Orange Free State After suffering these defeats, both Harry …

… Colenso and Gumede. On his return to the Bergville/Klip River Division, Gumede was warmly received by his chief … tribes, namely the Bakhulukwe and Batlokoa in the new Orange River Colony. Gumede played a significant role in their legal …

… attended the Kipling Street Muslim primary school in Salt River and matriculated at Trafalgar High School in District …