The South African Republic,also known as the Transvaal Republic,was an independent Boer republic in Southern Africa which existed from 1852 to 1902,when it was annexed into the British Empire as a result of the Second Boer War.
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger,better known as Paul Kruger,was a South African politician. He was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa,and State President of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900. Nicknamed Oom Paul,he came to international prominence as the face of the Boer cause—that of the Transvaal and its neighbour the Orange Free State—against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899–1902. He has been called a personification of Afrikanerdom and admirers venerate him as a tragic folk hero.
The Orange Free State was an independent Boer-ruled sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century,which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902. It is one of the three historical precursors to the present-day Free State province.
The Boer republics were independent,self-governing republics formed by Dutch-speaking inhabitants of the Cape Colony and their descendants. The founders –variously named Trekboers,Boers,and Voortrekkers –settled mainly in the middle,northern,north-eastern and eastern parts of present-day South Africa. Two of the Boer republics achieved international recognition and complete independence:the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. The republics did not provide for the separation of church and state,initially allowing only the Dutch Reformed Church,and later also other Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition. The republics came to an end after the Second Boer War of 1899–1902,which resulted in British annexation and later incorporation of their lands into the Union of South Africa.
Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey,better known as Koos de la Rey,was a South African military officer who served as a Boer general during the Second Boer War. De la Rey also had a political career and was one of the leading advocates of Boer independence.
Marthinus Wessel Pretorius was a South African political leader. An Afrikaner,he helped establish the South African Republic,was the first president of the ZAR,and also compiled its constitution.
Petrus Jacobus Joubert,better known as Piet Joubert,was Commandant-General of the South African Republic from 1880 to 1900. He also served as Vice-President to Paul Kruger from May 1883 to October 1884 and from May 1896 until his death. He served in First Boer War,Second Boer War,and the Malaboch War.
The Volksraad of the South African Republic was the parliament of the former South African Republic (ZAR),it existed from 1840 to 1877,and from 1881 to 1902 in part of what is now South Africa. The body ceased to exist after the British Empire's victory in the Second Anglo-Boer War. The Volksraad sat in session in Ou Raadsaal in Church Square,Pretoria.
Jacobus Nicolaas Boshof was a South African (Boer) statesman,a late-arriving member of the Voortrekker movement,and the second state president of the Orange Free State,in office from 1855 to 1859.
Stephanus Schoeman was President of the South African Republic from 6 December 1860 until 17 April 1862. His red hair,fiery temperament and vehement disputes with other Boer leaders earned him the moniker "Stormvogel den Noorden," "Storm bird of the North."
The Transvaal Civil War was a series of skirmishes during the early 1860s in the South African Republic,or Transvaal,in the area now comprising the Gauteng,Limpopo,Mpumalanga,and North West provinces of South Africa. It began after the British government had recognised trekkers living in the Transvaal as independent in 1854. The Boers divided into numerous political factions. The war ended in 1864,when an armistice treaty was signed under a karee tree south of the site of the later town of Brits.
Sir Johannes John Wilhelmus Wessels (1862–1936) was an Afrikaner judge of the Appellate Division from 1923 to 1936 and Chief Justice of South Africa from 1932 to 1936.
The Moreleta Kloof Nature Reserve in eastern Pretoria,Gauteng,South Africa,was part of the farm Garsfontein which was acquired by Jacobus Cornelius Rademeyer in 1859. He had married Cornelia Jacoba Susanna Erasmus on 2 Jul 1837 in George,Eastern Cape. Cornelia Erasmus was a daughter of Daniel Jacobus Elardus Erasmus,who was the first settler on the farm Zwartkop,and sister of Daniel Elardus Erasmus who had settled on the farm Doornkloof. Jacobus Rademeyer operated Garsfontein as a dairy farm and Carel Erasmus purchased the farm from him in 1877 and built a house there;the house was later converted into a chapel which is still in use. In 1903,his son-in-law,Johan Marnewick,built another house on the farm;this house has been converted into a restaurant named Rademeyer's. The reserve is managed by the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality and admission is free. The reserve covers 100 hectares.
General Jacobus Philippus Snyman was one of the dominant military figures in the South African Republic during the 19th century. He was the District Commissioner,Native Commissioner,and Commandant for the Marico district and led the Rustenburg and Marico commandos during the Second Boer War. Nicknamed Hamerkop,Snyman came to international prominence as the military commander at the Siege of Mafeking from November 1899 to May 1900.
Pieter Daniël de Wet was a Boer general in the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) and a younger brother of Boer general and politician Christiaan de Wet. Piet de Wet participated in the Battle of Poplar Grove,the Battle of Sanna's Post for the waterworks there,and defeated the 13th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry at Lindley. In July 1900,he surrendered to the British at Kroonstad,Orange Free State. He became a prominent member of the National Scouts helping the British in the last years of the Boer War.
Christiaan Botha was a younger brother of Louis Botha (1862–1919) and Philip Botha (1851-1901),but an older brother of Theunis Jacobus Botha (1867-1930),and likewise a Boer general in the Second Boer War (1899–1902) who then both fought the British to the end.
Barend Daniël Bouwer was a South African general in the Boer War (1899-1902) and the First World War (1914-1918).
Petrus Johannes Liebenberg was a South African Boer politician for Potchefstroom and a general in the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). He successfully invaded the Cape Colony,failed to prevent the British relief of Mafeking,and fought to the end up to the Battle of Rooiwal. During the First World War Liebenberg criticised the policy of the Botha government to attack German South West Africa but did not condone the Maritz rebellion.
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Daniel Jacobus Elardus Erasmus was a Boer general during the Anglo Boer War (1899–1902).
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