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1838 Bloukrans moorde

THE BLOUKRANS MASSACRE – 1838 After killing Retief and his party, Dingane’s impis (army) moved into the valleys to the west under the Drakensberg mountains where the Voortrekkers were encamped in family groups. They were stretched over a distance of 45 miles by 25 miles and were expecting good news from Retief’s meeting with Dingane. […]

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1838 Retief vermoor

In October1837, Piet Retief, Voortrekker Leader at the time, visited Dingaan at the Royal Kraal. Retief was in high spirits at the prospect of negotiating a land deal for his people with Dingaan. In November 1837, about 1000 Voortrekker wagons started the descent down the Drakensberg from the Orange Free State into Natal. Dingaan asked […]

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28/02/2008

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1838 Retief gewaarsku

On 5 October 1837 Piet Retief established a camp near the Drakensberg ridge and proceeded on horseback the next day to explore the region between the Drakensberg and Port Natal, now known as Kwa-Zulu Natal. Upon receiving a positive impression of the region he started negotiations with the Zulu chief, Dingane, in November 1837. Retief […]

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1838 Die Groot Trek oor die Drakensberg

In 1837, the Port Elizabeth based Boer, Piet Retief, organized an expedition from Grahamstown, after issuing a manifesto outlining his reasons for undertaking the Trek into the interior. After joining with an expedition led by Andries Potgieter for the initial trek north, Retief and his party turned eastwards over the Drakensberg mountains (the Dragon Mountains) […]

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1836 Die Groot Trek

The Great Trek (Die Groot Trek) was an eastward and north-eastward migration during the 1830s and 1840s of the segment of Afrikaners (known as Boers or Boere (Dutch/Afrikaans for “farmers”), who descended from settlers from western mainland Europe, most notably from the Netherlands The Trekkers comprised two groups from the eastern frontier region of the […]

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1679 Van der Stel

Simon van der Stel (1639-1712), Dutch commander and governor of the Cape Colony, in what is now South Africa, from 1679 to 1699. He was appointed to the post of commander by the Dutch East India Company. Van der Stel encouraged agriculture and forestry and developed a scientific approach to the production of wine at […]

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25/02/2008

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1800 Die Kaap onder Britse bewind

ENGLISH As the 18th century drew to a close, Dutch mercantile power began to fade and the British moved in to fill the vacuum. They seized the Cape in 1795 to prevent it from falling into the hands of Napoleonic France, then briefly relinquished it back to the Dutch (1803) before finally garnering recognition of […]

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24/02/2008

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1835 Die sesde grensoorlog

On the eastern border, further trouble arose between the government and the Xhosa, towards whom the policy of the Cape government was marked by much vacillation. On 11 December 1834, a government commando party killed a chief of high rank, incensing the Xhosa: an army of 10,000 men, led by Macomo, a brother of the […]

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