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… The Battle of Platberg is fought during the Orange Free Sate-Basotho War. …

… Marthinus Theunis Steyn, former president of the Orange Free State, dies in Bloemfontein. …

… The Battle of Platberg is fought during the Orange Free Sate-Basotho War. …

… Petition by Black women against carrying of passes in the Orange Free State. …

… The battle of Koranaberg takes place during the Orange Free State-Basuto War. …

… John Bidwell Mancoe was born in 1895 in Reddersburg in the Orange Free State, he graduated from Healdtown and became a … Bloemfontein branch and later provincial secretary for the Orange Free State. During the 1930s he was an officer of  …

… which the Provincial Council agreed to allow children in Orange Free State schools to be taught in Afrikaans. In 1918 … Universities of Stellenbosch, the Witwatersrand and the Orange Free State gave him honorary doctorates in Literature, … another collection of poems called  Rivier en Veld  (River and plain) in 1922, with  Somerdae  (Summer days) in …

… The railway line between Cape Town and Eerste River (34 km) is completed. …

… A trackless trolley plunges into the Nile River drowning seventy-four, in Cairo, Egypt. …

… and began her LLB part-time through the University of the Orange Free State . In 1952 she was admitted to the Orange Free State Bar, and became an advocate. In 1968 she …

… was born to Gabriel and ‘Minnie’ Loots [iii] , in the Kat River Valley region of the Eastern Cape on 19 July 1936. [iv] … the expulsion of the Xhosa leader Maqoma [v] from the Kat River in 1828. [vi] The intention of the British Colonial … between the Xhosas and the ‘white colonists’. [vii]   Kat River person of mixed Khoi and European descent, referred to …

… Melius de Villiers (88), chief justice of the Orange Free State, dies in Stellenbosch. …

… Louis Johannes Botha, administrator of the Orange Free State, is born in Reitz, OFS. …

… The first census in the Orange Free State is held.   Bloemfontein has 2 567 …

… Conroy (67), Boer general and politician, dies in Parys, Orange Free State. …

… Afrikaans novelist, is born in the district of Boshof, Orange Free State. …

… 464 men against Dingane and his warriors near the Ncome River. About 3 500 of the 5 000 Zulu warriors were killed, … of the region. The battle location is known as  Blood River . Legend has it that the Ncome River turned red with the blood of so many casualties. In …

… Zululand, taking his followers across the Thukela (Tugela) River. When Dingane killed one of the Voortrekker leaders,  … , the Voortrekkers sought revenge. In the  Battle of Blood River on 16 December 1838 , 470 Voortrekkers, led by  Andries … estimated 10,000 Zulu attackers on the banks of the Ncome River at in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. …

… about 25 pupils that was housed in the church hall at Salt River in Knysna.St Paul’s received funding from the Anglican … the growing numbers of pupils.On rainy days, the Salt River flowed so strongly that children couldn’t cross it to come to school. Percy would go down to the river and carry them across, one or two at a time - and at …

… Kobie Coetsee was born on 19 April 1931 in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, and … high school career Coetsee attended the University of the Orange Free State where he completed his BA and LLB in Law, … West and served on the Head Committee for the NP in the Orange Free State, where he was chairman from 1979 to 1985. …

… Sekonyela was born in 1804 in Harrismith next to the Wilge River. He was born in the royal family and later became the … the Chief of Batlokwa people and settled along the Caledon River. Moshoeshoe and Batlokwa. In 1853 Sekonyela’s eldest …

… Forty people die when a ferry founders in a river in the Central African Republic. (2006). …

… die in an attack by IFP supporters in Bruntville, Mooi River, Natal. …

… government again restricts the Cape Colony to the old Fish River boundary. …

… (Gaffie) du Toit, SA rugby player, is born in Kuils River, CP. …

… houses of the contentious Glenmore township on the Fish River …

… (ANC) during the Defiance Campaign and became a prominent Orange Free State leader. …

… Johannes Henricus Brand (64), the fourth president of the Orange Free State, dies in Bloemfontein. …

… Francis William Reitz, president of the Orange Free State, is born in Swellendam, Cape Colony. …

… S.A. sculptor, is born in Paradys Location, Thaba’ Nchu, Orange Free State. …