The Orange River Colony was the British colony created after Britain first occupied (1900) and then annexed (1902) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War. The colony ceased to exist in 1910, when it was absorbed into the Union of South Africa as the Orange Free State Province.
Pieter Arnoldus "Piet" Cronjé was a South African Boer general during the Anglo-Boer Wars of 1880–1881 and 1899–1902.
MartinusTheunis Steyn was a South African lawyer, politician, and statesman. He was the sixth and last president of the independent Orange Free State from 1896 to 1902.
Grey College is a semi-private English & Afrikaans medium school for boys situated in the suburb of Universitas in Bloemfontein in the Free State province of South Africa, it is one of the 23 Milner Schools. The sister school is Eunice High School (Bloemfontein).
Steynsrus is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa that was founded in 1910 and named after the last president of the Orange Free State, Martinus Theunis Steyn. It is included under Moqhaka Local Municipality, the tier of municipal government in South Africa, and administered from Kroonstad.
Winburg is a small mixed farming town in the Free State province of South Africa.
The following lists events that happened during 1898 in South Africa.
The following lists events that happened during 1916 in South Africa.
The following lists events that happened during 1857 in South Africa.
Charles Gustav Fichardt was a South African cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1892 and 1896. He was also a Boer soldier in the Second Boer War and later a politician and a prominent advocate of Boer independence.
The Bloemfontein Conference was a meeting that took place at the railway station of Bloemfontein, capital of the Orange Free State from 31 May until 5 June 1899. The main issue dealt with the status of British migrant workers called "Uitlanders", who mined the gold fields in Transvaal.
The National Women's Monument in Bloemfontein, South Africa, is a monument commemorating the roughly 27,000 Boer women and children who died in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War. The Monument is a Provincial Heritage Site in the Free State.
Sir John George Fraser was a prominent Orange Free State lawyer, politician, statesman and member of the Volksraad. He was knighted in 1905.
Lt. Stephanus Sebastian Leonard Steyn was a Scottish-South African rugby union player and British Army officer who was killed in World War I.
Colin Fraser Steyn was a lawyer and a politician in South Africa. He served as a member in the House of Assembly, senator, and cabinet minister in the government of Jan Smuts.
Marthinus Theunis Steyn 'Theuns' Stofberg was a South African rugby union player who was captain of the national team for four tests between 1980 and 1984. He is remembered for his speed and his size, both remarkable for a flank at that time.
Marthinus or Martinus is an old Dutch, Danish or Norwegian male given name - a latinised form of Martin.
Onze Rus was the farm owned by President Martinus Theunis Steyn, the last State President of the Orange Free State. It is located around 22 km south of Bloemfontein, South Africa. After the Second Boer War, he tended to operate from here as a leader and adviser to the Afrikaner people.
Orangia Unie was a political party established in May 1906 in the Orange River Colony under the leadership of Abraham Fischer, Martinus Theunis Steyn and J. B. M. Hertzog. When the colony gained self-government in 1907, the party formed the government.
Marthinus Theunis "Theunie" Steyn SC was a South African judge of the Appellate Division and Administrator-General of South West Africa.
