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… this is the same as Mgwali that is still near the Mgwali river, and corresponds to the description for the location of …

… the Bloemfontein Convention is signed, giving the Orange River Sovereignty self governing status. May, Hoffman elected … to Bloemfontein is completed, later extended to the Vaal River. 1892 First traffic regulations for the town of …

… slaves. This led to the establishment of the Kat River Settlement, which was to become a focal point of the … were to become the Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.  1850 The Kat River Rebellion - At different times the Khoi were subjected …

… than a year into the First Frontier War, the Great Fish River became the eastern frontier. It was also here that the … the Boers to abandon their farms along the Bushmans River.  Subsequently, in December 1779 an armed clash between … fighting was also going on against the Basuto in the Orange River Sovereignty. All these factors contributed to …

… settled in the area that later became known as the Orange Free State (present day Free State).  The rest headed … were subsequently defeated at the famous Battle of Blood River , 16 December 1838, leading to the founding of the … was signed and the Boers founded the Republic of Orange Free State. British sentiment was strongly in favour …

… to balance power in their favour. The Transvaal and the Orange River Colony had been granted responsible government in 1906 … government and opposition from the Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange River Colony, the Transvaal, Southern Rhodesia and …

… colonies: Cape Colony, Natal Colony, Transvaal Colony, and Orange River Colony. The Union is under British dominion. 1913 The …

… and he was sent to live with his grandparents in the Orange Free State. Nkoli’s grandparents were tenant farmers, …

… Africa. The Western boundary is the Atlantic Ocean and the Orange River Mouth, is the Northern boundary.  Namaqualand was … Africa   (now known as Namibia ), is located across the Orange River. Travel was by means of Pontoons, which occurred …

… is at the foot of Table Mountain and along the Liebeek River. A Fort of Good Hope was built. With him, Van Riebeeck … part of the population moved across the Northern border (Orange River) of the Cape Colony to the areas known later as the Orange Free State, Natal and Transvaal.   Many new churches …

… of attacks over the next few months. The Battle of Blood River The Boers felt that the entire Trek project would … 470 fighters and moved to a strategic point on the Buffalo River (also known as the Ncome River), where they formed a … Boers established colonies called Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State, where they governed themselves as …

… this Seaside Town that lies on the mouth of the mighty- Orange River !" This is the River that feeds the Gariep River and … mining industry. The Cove on the Coast, 7 km South of the Orange River mouth. The Area has the richest alluvial diamond …

… on 16 October 1909 by the then Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony, Abraham Fischer . The men's hostel and the main …

… Union was made from four colonies: Cape Colony , Natal, Orange River Colony and the Transvaal. …

… Gariep Dam on the 4 October 1996. Gariep is Khoekhoe for 'river' and was the original name of the Orange river. Gariep Dam Image source …

… Guma (Jimmy) was born on 23 August 1894 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). A trade unionist …

… the hollow of its bean-like shape. Lying between the Vaal River in the North and the Orange River in the South, the region is flat with rolling … in the Great Trek, some of them settled just north of Orange River , which formed the border between the Cape …

… opened on 19 December 1907 by the then Governor of the Orange River Colony, Sir Hamilton J Gould-Adams. The tuckshop …

… With the outbreak of the war in 1899 the Transvaal and Orange Free State police forces were called to active service … a scheme for a Constabulary Force in the Transvaal and Orange Free State (OFS) that could begin to function in 1901, … broken up in 1908 and replaced by the Transvaal and Orange River Police forces. With unification on 31 May 1910, …

… and Ndwandwe. The Ndwandwe refugees moved nearby the Vaal River where they raided cattle from farmers. In 1826 more … Limpopo). They raided west as far as the Marico River (which runs through present day North-West Province, … and attacked chiefdoms north of the Gariep River (or Orange River). In 1828 and 1834, Jan Blum, a Kora leader, …

… left the colony under his leadership. After crossing the Orange River the various groups spread in different directions to … Potchefstroom was the first town north of the Vaal River and was named after Potgieter. …

… Coloured people moved to Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State. Local government aimed to control them by forcing them to carry passes. The Boer Republic of the Orange Free State was the first independent Voortrekker state and came into being during the signing of the Sand River Convention by British and Boer representatives in …

… Tshwane . Pretoria stretches along both sides of the Apies River and extends into the Western Hills, of the Magaliesberg … for South Africa and Governor of Transvaal and Orange River Colony was responsible for the design and execution of …

… Kausob, was killed in battle near Slypklip on the Vaal River. According to the anthropologist Stow, his headquarters were beyond the Koedoesberg along the Riet River, southwest of Kimberley, although Kausob himself cited … complaints in this regard with the government of the Orange Free State Republic. In May and June 1958 Kausob …

… communities left their own areas in places like the Orange Free State, Natal and the Transvaal. The vulnerability … Zwide and Sobhuza fought over land along the Pongola River and Sobhuza was defeated after which he led his people … wherever they went, reducing KwaZulu Natal and the Orange Free State to a wasteland and forcing the displacement …

… up running as the South African Party candidate for Klip River ‘but was defeated by H. E. K. Anderson’ (The Cape …

… began in 1835 when separate parties crossed the Orange River and headed towards the Transvaal.    …

… Gladys Thomas born was in 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town . She was adopted by a family in Lakeside, …

… and the ruler of the Netherlands, Prince William of Orange, had to flee to England. In England, the prince asked … contracts. He also allocated locations along the Gamtoos River to certain groups and to a mission station at … he failed to get the Xhosa to move back across the Fish River. Although treaties were signed with Ngqika (Gaika) and …

… streams flowing off the mountain: to the North the Varsche River, to the East the Liesbeek; South-East the Diep and Spaanchemat River, whilst the Disa River emerged from Orange Kloof and ran South-West. The most important river, … was built in Hof Street in 1814. Iron pipes were laid in Orange , Long and Strand Streets and a number of fountains …