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    Graaff-Reinet (Afrikaans: ['χrɑːf rɛɪnɛt]) Xhosa(eRhafu) is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It is the oldest town in the province...
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    Graaff-Reinet (Afrikaans: ['χrɑːf rɛɪnɛt]) was from 1795 to 1796 a self-proclaimed Boer republic that existed in and around the city of Graaff-Reinet...
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    councillor off to parliament". Graaff-Reinet Advertiser. Retrieved 19 February 2021. "Local election candidates announced". Graaff-Reinet Advertiser. 6 July 2016...
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    Rebellion' of 1795 where after the Boers declared Graaff-Reinet an independent republic, the Republic of Graaff-Reinet. Following the Invasion of the Cape Colony...
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    Graaff-Reinet Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as...
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    Africa that connects Calvinia with Komga via Carnarvon, Victoria West, Graaff-Reinet, Somerset East and King William's Town. It is cosigned with the N10...
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  • was a founding member of the Cape Parliament, in which he represented Graaff-Reinet, and was prominent in fighting the Eastern Province Separatist League...
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    reforms were granted. Descending from the Sneeuberge, a scene near Graaff-Reinet, by Burchell Passing Cradock Pass, Outeniqua Mountains, by Charles Collier...
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    in Graaff-Reinet, South Africa. Church congregation website. Archived 2013-08-11 at the Wayback Machine Tourism website of the city of Graaff-Reinet. 32°14′58″S...
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    in South Africa that connects Beaufort West with Port Shepstone via Graaff-Reinet, Komani (previously Queenstown), Mthatha and Port Edward. The R61 is...
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    in South Africa that connects George with the N1 at Colesberg, via Graaff-Reinet and Middelburg. The N9 begins just south-east of George in the Western...
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    Graaff-Reinet. Sometime around late August 1834 Jan Bantjes arrived in Grahamstown, contacted Uys and made his introductions. In June 1834 at Graaff-Reinet...
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  • Reinet may refer to: Reinet Investments, a Luxembourg-based investment company Graaff Reinet, a town in Eastern Cape province, South Africa This disambiguation...
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  • Sneeuberge, Eastern Cape, South Africa, on the National road N9, between Graaff-Reinet and Middelburg. The pass is 1781m above mean sea level. The pass is...
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    1786 of the Dutch settlement of Graaff-Reinet – named for the Governor of the Cape Colony Cornelius Jacob van de Graaff (in office: 1785–1791) and for...
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    R75 is a provincial route in Eastern Cape, South Africa that connects Graaff-Reinet with Gqeberha via Despatch, Kariega and Jansenville. The R75 begins...
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    the Karoo and almost completely surrounds the Eastern Cape town of Graaff-Reinet. It contains the Nqweba Dam. The park is located in the foothills, or...
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    Marthinus Prinsloo established an acting government in the Colony of Graaff-Reinet on 4 February 1795. The rebellion and self-government was motivated...
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    foot of the Sneeuberge, approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Graaff Reinet. It was founded in 1875 as a church town, like many other Karoo villages...
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    conservation areas of the Karoo. Aberdeen lies some 55 km south-west of Graaff-Reinet, 155 km east-south-east of Beaufort West and 32 km south of the Camdeboo...
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    migrants, established a magistracy at Swellendam in 1745 and another at Graaff Reinet in 1786, and declared the Gamtoos River as the eastern frontier of the...
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    about 40 kilometres north-east of Graaff-Reinet. In September 1836, after the up company of Gerrit Maritz left Graaff-Reinet to go northwards, those that stayed...
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    governor, Jan Willem Janssens. Uitenhage formed part of the district of Graaff Reinet (shortly after its short-lived secession). The Cape Colony received...
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    have been designed by Louis M. Thibault who designed the Drostdy in Graaff-Reinet After Reverend Andrew Murrays death in 1866 the parsonage was occupied...
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    dam located on the Sundays River in the Camdeboo National Park, in Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It was opened in 1925. The dam has a capacity...
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    Afrikaner cleric and anti-apartheid activist Beyers Naudé. Its seat is in Graaff-Reinet. The merger was motivated by political interests because the ruling...
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  • acting Governor of the Cape Colony A Dutch Reformed Church is founded in Graaff Reinet A Moravian Mission is founded at Genadendal 23 June – Sebastiaan Cornelis...
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    GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of the heritage sites in Graaff-Reinet as recognised by the South African Heritage Resources Agency. Wikimedia...
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    Elizabeth Burger of the farm Langefontein in the Camdeboo district of Graaff Reinet, Cape Colony. After studying theology at the University of Utrecht in...
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    the provincial capital Cape Town, and 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Graaff-Reinet. It is governed as part of the Beaufort West Local Municipality within...
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