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Education in the boer republics pdf4/9/2023 Following an application process, the Free Burghers formed two groups, the first group named their settlement Harman's Colony and the second group named theirs Stephen's Colony. The Free Burghers established two colonies at the Liesbeeck River near Rondebosch in the Western Cape. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) first issued land to the Free Burghers in 1657. The republics came to an end after the Second Boer War of 1899–1902, which resulted in British annexation and later (in 1910) incorporation of their lands into the Union of South Africa.įlag used by the Voortrekkers during the Great Trek The republics did not provide for the separation of church and state, initially allowing only the Dutch Reformed Church, and later also other Protestant churches in the Calvinist tradition. Two of the Boer Republics achieved international recognition and complete independence: the South African Republic ( Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR or Transvaal) and the Orange Free State. The founders – variously named Trekboers, Boers and Voortrekkers – settled mainly in the middle, northern, north-eastern and eastern parts of present-day South Africa. The Boer republics (sometimes also referred to as Boer states) were independent, self-governing republics formed (especially in the last half of the 19th century) by Dutch-speaking inhabitants of the Cape Colony and their descendants. Boer republics and Griqua states in Southern Africa, 19th century
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