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    brother Lodewijk Napoleon Bonaparte. The "King of Holland" founded an "Orde van de Unie", (English: Order of the Union, later dubbed "Order of Holland" then...
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    The Order of the Union (Dutch: Orde van de Unie) was a chivalric order established in 1806 by Louis Bonaparte, younger brother of Napoleon I, for the Kingdom...
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    1861 (in Dutch) Luc Eckhout, "Het admiralenboek", Amsterdam 1992 (in Dutch) O. Schutte, "De Orde van de Unie", Zutphen 1985 (in Dutch)The 1781 battle...
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    The Union of South Africa (Dutch: Unie van Zuid-Afrika; Afrikaans: Unie van Suid-Afrika; pronunciation) was the historical predecessor to the present-day...
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    Grootkruis Orde van de Unie, Februari 17, 1807 Grootkruis Orde van de Reünie, Februari 22, 1812 Commandeur in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw Commandeur de la...
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    1904 sentiment was growing for some form of self-government. The Orangia Unie (Orange Union Party) was formally constituted in May 1906, after several...
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    Natal Indian Congress NLP NNP NP NPP NRP NUSAS Occupy Orangia Unie Oranjewerkers Orde Boerevolk PAVN PFP Progressive Party (Cape Colony) Progressive...
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    holiday by the Department of Basic Education in 2022. Former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter previously declared in January 2023 that there would be a load shedding...
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    The Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (Afrikaans for "Society of True Afrikaners") was formed on 14 August 1875 in the town of Paarl by a group of Afrikaans...
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    the northern seven provinces signed the Union of Utrecht treaty (Dutch: Unie van Utrecht), in which they decided to join forces against Spanish rule. The...
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    Students, NUSAS, and Student Representative Council, SRC, president), Philip van der Merwe (SRC vice-president) and Raphie Kaplinsky (from Radical Society)...
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  • Gerdener, E.G. Jansen, J.J. Serfontein and M.D.C. De Wet Nel. Verslag van die Kleurvraagstuk-Kommissie van die Herenigde Nasionale Party [Sauer Report, 1948]...
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  • Minister of Information, and a rising star in the National Party; and Hendrik van den Bergh, the Head of the Bureau for State Security. A series of internal...
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    Bloemfontein), D.H. van Coller (Heilbron), Christoffel Cornelis Froneman (Winburg and Ladybrand), J.N. Jacobs (Boshof), C. A. van Niekerk (Kroonstad)...
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    advancement of the Afrikaner people. It was founded by H. J. Klopper, H. W. van der Merwe, D. H. C. du Plessis and the Rev. Jozua Naudé in 1918 as Jong Zuid...
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    first leader was Colin Eglin, who was succeeded by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and then Zach de Beer. Another prominent member was Harry Schwarz who had led...
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    each of the parties that had entered the merger: Zach de Beer, Denis Worrall and Wynand Malan. De Beer, from the dominant PFP-faction, eventually became...
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    In July 1989, Cornelius Lottering, a member of a breakaway AWB group Orde van die Dood (Order of Death), attempted to assassinate Allan by placing a...
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  • march were Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa and Sophia Williams-De Bruyn. A representatives of each race group in South Africa carried 14,000...
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    killings. For most of its existence, BOSS was headed by General Hendrik van den Bergh, who, while special Security Adviser to Prime Minister John Vorster...
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     112. "Kaap de Goede Hoop". De VOC site. Archived from the original on 6 May 2019. Retrieved 8 February 2013. J. A. Heese, Die Herkoms van die Afrikaner...
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  • had become mired, the head of BOSS, Hendrik van den Bergh, resigned in June 1978 and was replaced by Alec van Wyk.: 120 : 122  The Bureau for State Security...
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    Afrikaans (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    en groei van het Afrikaans – G.G. Kloeke (1950) Heeringa, Wilbert; de Wet, Febe; van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. (2015). "The origin of Afrikaans pronunciation:...
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    painter Oliver Lee Jackson in his Sharpeville Series from the 1970s. Ingrid de Kok was a child living on a mining compound near Johannesburg where her father...
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    Boeremag (redirect from Herman van Rooyen)
    various attacks planned to follow the bombings. In early May 2006 Herman van Rooyen and Rudi Gouws, two of the leading members being tried, escaped from...
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    into their debt in one manner or another. The South African historian Ian van der Waag described Boer society as being characterized by a quasi-feudalism...
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    frames In addition to a secretariat – led by Mac Maharaj of the ANC and Fanie van der Merwe of the government – and a management committee, CODESA I comprised...
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    Cape. In August of 1659, Van Riebeeck and the Council commenced the construction of the redoubts Kijkuijt (The Lookout), Keert de Koe (Stops the cow), and...
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    Publishers. pp. 2, 3 & 4. ISBN 9781868424795. Goodwin, A. J. H. (1952). "Jan van Riebeeck and the Hottentots 1652–1662". The South African Archaeological...
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    ISBN 0-631-21661-8. Barend-van Haeften, Marijke; Paasman, Bert: De Kaap: Goede Hoop halverwege Indië. Bloemlezing van Kaapteksten uit de Compagnietijd. (Hilversum:...
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