Colonial history of Rustenburg
… in the early 1860s. When Marthinus Wessels Pretorius was elected president of the Orange Free State as well as … By the late 1860s, the 4th Earl of Carnarvon, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, was mooting plans to … December 1880, Kruger, PietJoubert and MW Pretorius were elected to the leadership. On 13 December, the triumvirate …