11) Witwatersrand. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Gauteng (formerly a part of Transvaal), South Africa. The area, which forms the watershed between the Vaal and Olifants rivers, is c.25 mi (40 km) wide and extends...
12) Trek, Great. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Afrikaner farmers (Boers) who left the Cape Colony to escape British domination and eventually founded Natal, Transvaal, and the Orange Free State. Trek is an Afrikaans...
13) Venda. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Zimbabwe border in what is now Northern Transvaal. Kruger National Park bordered on its northeast, and the former homeland of Gazankulu bordered on the southeast....
14) Drakensberg Range. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...South Africa and Lesotho, extending 700 mi (1,127 km) NE-SW in KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Free State, Northern Transvaal, and Mpumalanga. Thabana-Ntlenyana, at 11,425...
15) concentration camp. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...First used by the British in the South African War (Boer War) to confine Afrikaners in the Transvaal and Cape Colony (1899-1902). In the USSR, the gulag elaborated...
16) Brand, Sir John Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...South African politician, president of the Orange Free State, b. Capetown. He was called to the English bar in 1849 and practiced law in South Africa. In 1863 he...
17) Krugersdorp. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The chief industrial city of the W Witwatersrand, Krugersdorp is the center for a region where gold, manganese, asbestos, lime, and uranium are mined. The city has...
18) South Africa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (1995 est. pop. 45,095,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. It borders...
19) Steyn, Martinus Theunis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Orange Free State (see Free State), educated in the Netherlands and in England. He was admitted to the bar in 1882 and served as a judge. As president he made an...
20) Buller, Sir Redvers Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...His military career began in China, and he later took part in the suppression of the Red River Rebellion (1870) in Canada. In Africa he fought in the Kafir and Zulu...
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