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. His death at the hands of the South African Police under controversial circumstances had a major role in sparking the Maritz rebellion.
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.
Graaff-Reinet is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is the oldest town in the province and the fifth oldest town in South Africa, after Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Simon's Town, Paarl and Swellendam. The town was the centre of a short-lived republic in the late 18th century. The town was a starting point for Great Trek groups led by Gerrit Maritz and Piet Retief and furnished large numbers of the Voortrekkers in 1835–1842.
Cornelis Frederik Bezuidenhout as a frontier farmer in the eastern Cape Colony whose death in a skirmish with Khoi soldiers, who had been sent to arrest him, was the origin of the Slagtersnek Rebellion which reached its dramatic finale on 9 March 1816 under the gallows at Van Aardspos, twelve miles south of Slagtersnek.
The Slachter's Nek Rebellion was an uprising against the British colonial government by Boers in 1815 on the eastern border of the Cape Colony.
Rudolf Johannes van Niekerk was a South African author, dramatist, radio presenter and professor. He wrote in Afrikaans and was a member of the Sestigers group.
Jacob Glen Cuyler was an American of Dutch origin who was an important character in the settlement of the British 1820 Settlers to the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Marie Linde was the pen name of Elizabeth Johanna Bosman, a South African novelist of Afrikaner descent. Initially home schooled, she studied modern languages at the University of Cape Town and was an accomplished linguist, able to speak Dutch, German, French and English. She published novels, short stories and plays, and created the first Afrikaans radio play broadcast. Published in 1925, her novel Onder bevoorregte mense was the first Afrikaans novel translated into English, being issued as Among Privileged People.
Spoorloos is a South African crime drama anthology television series created by Ilse van Hemert and developed by Ochre Moving Pictures. The first season is based on the 2014 novel Daddy Long Legs by Vernon W. Baumann and set in the fictional town of Digtersdal in the Eastern Cape. Each subsequent season follows a new small town and cast of characters.
The Moederkerk in Stellenbosch is the second oldest congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa.
The Dutch Reformed Church in Bloemfontein, South Africa is the fourth oldest congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa in the Free State Synod, but the 39th in the Church. The parish was founded on 30 November 1848, the same year as Fauresmith and Smithfield.
The Hopefield Reformed Church is a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the South African province of Western Cape. The center of gravity of the parish is the Sandveld town of Hopefield. It separated from the Swartland Reformed Church on 13 December 1851 as the 48th congregation in the then Cape Church. In 1902 Vredenburg seceded from Hopefield, in 1957 Saldanha/Langebaan Road and in 1988 Langebaan.
The Aliwal North Reformed Church is the 10th oldest congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in its Synod of Eastern Cape even though it was the 11th to be established in the synodal area, but the Middelburg Reformed Church merged with Middelburg-Uitsig in 2010. In the entire Church it was the 51st foundation, but is now the 50th oldest congregation.
The Dutch Reformed Church in Jansenville was the first of a total of seven congregations of the Dutch Reformed Church that was founded in 1855 and is therefore the 61st oldest congregation in the entire Church and the 13th oldest congregation in the Synod of Eastern Cape. The NG municipality Middelburg, Cape, merged with its daughter municipality Middelburg-Uitsig as Middelburg-Karoo in 2010 and that year has since been indicated as its founding date, because Jansenville moved up one place.
The Dutch Reformed Church in Burgersdorp is a congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Synod of Eastern Cape in South Africa. It is the eighth oldest congregation in this Synod and was founded in 1846, 54 years after Graaff-Reinet. In the entire NG Church it was the 34th foundation, all of which except Pietermaritzburg (1839) and Potchefstroom (1842) were located in the single Cape Colony. In 2016, the congregation had 510 professing and 135 baptized members. Of the professing members, only 200 were under 50, while 140 of the 510 lived locally. On August 17, 2020, the church was damaged by a fire.
The Dutch Reformed Church in Barkly East is the 72nd oldest congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in what was the Cape Church for more than a century and a half, before the establishment of the Synods of Western and Southern Cape, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape in the middle of the decade after 1970 and beyond. It was indeed the 76th congregation to be founded, but four congregations that were older than Barkly East have since been incorporated into neighboring congregations, namely Middelburg, Komga, Greykerk and Alice, all in the present NG Church in the Eastern Cape. In 2016, the congregation had 263 professing and 90 baptized members. Besides the main church on Barkly East, the village of Rhodes is also a ministry point of the congregation.
The Burgersdorp Reformed Church is the oldest congregation of the Reformed Churches in South Africa, formerly the Cape Province. It was founded on 21 January 1860, about 11 months after the Church's foundation in Rustenburg on 11 February 1859.
The Dutch Reformed Church in Colesberg, with the Northern Cape town of Colesberg as its centre, is the 18th oldest congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, but due to the synodal boundaries that differ from the provincial ones, the fifth oldest in the Synod of Eastern Cape. On 10 December 2011, the congregation was already 185 years old. In 2015, the congregation had 90 baptized and 458 professing members.
The Steynsburg Reformed Church is the oldest congregation of the Reformed Churches in South Africa in the North Eastern Cape town of Steynsburg, which was founded by the church council and after elder A.P.J. Steyn was named because he took the lead in founding the congregation. Because of the congregation's zeal for education, it took an important place in the Reformed church association, especially during the first almost 80 years of its existence until around 1950. A school with 100 learners was opened here in 1875 and in 1905 a school for Christian national education from which a teaching college developed.
