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Johannes Henricus Brand (December 6, 1823-July 14, 1888) was third president of the Orange Free State, and his name became synonymous with that government for...
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Louis Botha (September 27, 1862-August 27, 1919) was a South African statesman and soldier. He was the first prime minister of the Union of South...
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Sir George Grey (April 14, 1812-September 19, 1898) was the British governor of Cape Colony and British high commissioner for South Africa from 1854-61. The...
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Johannes Gysbert Kotzé [Sir John Gilbert] (November 11, 1849-April 1, 1940), lawyer and judge, was intimately involved in the judicial and political affairs of the...
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Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (March 29, 1815-May 29, 1884) was a British imperial administrator. After a long and distinguished career in India, he served...
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George Eskem Ferguson (July 14, 1864 – April 7, 1897), a Fante surveyor who, in the later years of the 19th century, worked for the...
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Jacobus Eliza Johannes Capitein (c. 1717- February 1747) was one of the pioneers of formal education on the Gold Coast. He was probably a Fante,...
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Cornelius Frederick Adjetey (1893-February 28, 1948), the first martyr to the cause of national independence, was killed when colonial police opened fire on demonstrators, setting...
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George Kuntu Blankson (1809-August 23, 1898) was an outstanding 19th-century Gold Coast merchant, as well as a soldier, a skilled negotiator, and the first African...
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Jacobus Nicolas Boshof (January 31, 1808-April 21, 1881) was an advocate of the Natal Voortrekkers (ie. Afrikaner pioneer settlers) and played a strong organisational role...
