Swellendam Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the...

Occupation, the commandos were called up to defend the Cape Colony. At the Battle of Blaauwberg (6 January 1806), the Swellendam Commando held the British...

The Commando System was a mostly voluntary, part-time force of the South African Army, but in their role as local militia the units were often deployed...

Hermanus Steyn was appointed as President of the Republic of Swellendam. The burghers of Swellendam started to call themselves "national burghers" – after the...

Beaufort Commando Part of Natal Command in late 1970s. Originally named Empangeni/Richards Bay Commando. The unit was renamed Insele Commando on March 2...

against the Gunukwebe clans. Two Government commandos under the landdrosts of Graaff-Reinet and Swellendam penetrated into Xhosa territory as far as the...

Graaff-Reinet commando to meet any attack across the northern section of the frontier. Then while the Cape, Stellenbosch and Swellendam commandos advanced...

Wynberg Commando Caledon Commando Paarl Commando Stellenbosch Commando Swellendam Commando Winterberg Commando Worcester Commando Clanwilliam Commando Piketberg...

Company (VOC), the inhabitants proclaimed a republic. The residents of Swellendam also did this (see map). Before the leaders of the Cape Colony could retake...

(1797–1838) was a Voortrekker leader during the Great Trek. He was born in Swellendam, the third son (of six) of Jacobus Johannes Uys (nicknamed Koos Bybel...

Company and established an independent government at Graaff-Reinet 18 June Swellendam follows Graaff Reinet and declares a republic under Hermanus Steyn The...

great-granduncle Hermanus Steyn had been president of the self-declared Republic of Swellendam that revolted against Company rule in 1795. Bulhoek, Kruger's birthplace...

by 18 Trekboer farmer families who trekked up from Riebeek-Kasteel and Swellendam, led by the Meiring, Bezuidenhout, Botha, van Rooyen, van Heerden, Holtzhausen...

April 1838) was a Voortrekker hero during the Great Trek. Uys was born in Swellendam in 1823, the son of Petrus Lafras Uys and Alida Maria Uys. After the massacre...

among in total five sons and four daughters of Johannes Daniel Cronjé (Swellendam, Overberg, Western Cape, South Africa, 21 October 1806 – Kroonstad, Northern...

30 miles 61 chains (49.5 kilometres). 12 April – Cape Central – Roodewal to Swellendam, 41 miles (66.0 kilometres). 1 May – Transvaal – Potgietersrus to Pietersburg...

in an effort to control these migrants, established a magistracy at Swellendam in 1745 and another at Graaff Reinet in 1786, and declared the Gamtoos...

and Johanna Christina Gildenhuijsen (or Geldenhuys, Sergeants River, Swellendam, Western Cape, 22 December 1814 – Potchefstroom, 13 July 1878), who had...

Texas, United States, February 22, 1925) and Wynand Johannes Viljoen (Swellendam, South Africa, 1842 – Bakersfield, California, United States, 1914). This...

in terms of the Sand River Convention, between a commando of the ZAR, led by Kruger, and a Commando of the Orange Free State. President Jacobus Nicolaas...

their masters. In 1797, the Landdrost and Heemraden, local officials, of Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet extended pass laws beyond slaves and ordained that all...

and Dutch settlers, reaching Oudtshoorn by July 1799. Commandos from Graaf-Reinet and Swellendam then started fighting in a string of clashes. The government...

Mthethwa Paramountcy (c.1780–1817) Ndwandwe (c.1780–1817) Republic of Swellendam (1795) Republic of Graaff-Reinet (1795–1796) Cape Colony (1795–1802) 1800–1850...

the Zulus. Bantjes documented daily in his journal the progress of the commando, from their start on 27 November 1838 until they reached their selected...

Mthethwa Paramountcy (c.1780–1817) Ndwandwe (c.1780–1817) Republic of Swellendam (1795) Republic of Graaff-Reinet (1795–1796) Cape Colony (1795–1802) 1800–1850...

censorship in South Africa. Uys Krige was born in Bontebokskloof (near Swellendam) in the Cape Province. Even though the Krige family believed in Afrikaner...

King William's Town and Queenstown George, Mossel Bay, Oudtshoorn and Swellendam De Aar, Gordonia, Kimberley North, Kimberley South, Kuruman and Vryburg...

Cape Town CBD Clanwilliam George Knysna Montagu Mossel Bay Paarl Robertson Simonstown Stellenbosch Swellendam Table Mountain Tulbagh Worcester Wynberg...

Mthethwa Paramountcy (c.1780–1817) Ndwandwe (c.1780–1817) Republic of Swellendam (1795) Republic of Graaff-Reinet (1795–1796) Cape Colony (1795–1802) 1800–1850...

commander of the Boer commandos, was born near Winburg on a farm called Doornfontein. De la Rey served as a general of the Boer commandos in the Western Transvaal...