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Nicolaas Waterboer in later life

Nic(h)olaas Waterboer (c. 1819 - 17 September 1896) was a leader ("Kaptijn") of the Griqua people.

He was the last fully independent Griqua Kaptijn of Griqualand West, and after it became a British colony, his rule and that of his successors was largely nominal.

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Nicolaas Waterboer

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son of Andries Waterboer who had founded the Waterboer dynasty, and his wife Gertruida Pienaar. After his father's death in 1852, Nicolaas was proclaimed...

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Andries Waterboer

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Andries Waterboer (c.1789 - 1852) was a leader ("kaptijn") of the Griqua people. He founded the Waterboer dynasty of Griqualand West, and led to a split...

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Griqualand West

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(1800–1820) (1820 split in the Griqua nation) Andries Waterboer (1820–1852) Nicolaas Waterboer (1852–1896) (Continuation of dynasty in symbolic role until...

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Nicolaas

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people with the name Nicolaas or Nikolaas include: Nicolaas Bidloo (1673–1735), Dutch personal physician to Tsar Peter the Great Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017)...

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History of South Africa

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Although no formally surveyed boundaries existed, Griqua leader Nicolaas Waterboer claimed the diamond fields were situated on land belonging to the...

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Timeline of South Africa

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Zandrivier Convention. The Griekwa captain Andries Waterboer dies and is succeeded by his son Nicolaas Waterboer. The Voortrekker Hendrik Potgieter dies and...

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Martinus Theunis Steyn

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British government in 1871. Following the claims of the Griqua captain, Nicolaas Waterboer, the British government agreed that the Cape Governor, Sir Henry Barkly...

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Nooitgedacht Glacial Pavements

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Free State and Transvaal Republics met here with the Griqua Chief Nicolaas Waterboer and his agent David Arnot, on 18 August 1870. The Griqua representatives...

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Griqualand West Annexation Act

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and contested by the arriving diamond diggers, the Griqua leader Nicolaas Waterboer requested that the Cape Colony incorporate Griqualand West, as this...

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Cornelius Kok II

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practice little changed. Andries Waterboer died in 1852, but his son Nicolaas Waterboer continued the territorial conflicts with Kok. In 1857, with the support...

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Charles Craufurd Hay

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acting governor he was sympathetic to the claims of the Griqua Chief, Nicolaas Waterboer, against the Government of the Orange Free State. He was also colonel...

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Orange Free State

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which were situated in part on land claimed by the Griqua chief Nicholas Waterboer and by the Orange Free State. The Free State established a temporary government...

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Party lists for the 2019 South African election

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Michelle Rademeyer 129. Sunette Bezuidenhout 130. Nicolaas Johannes Stephanus Viljoen 131. Nicolaas Christiaan Jacobus Verster 132. Anna Elizabeth Breedt...

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Bophuthatswana

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members of the Bophuthatswana Police opening fire at the car. The driver, Nicolaas Fourie, and his two passengers promptly surrendered and were disarmed....

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Boer republics

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Griqualand West (1870–1871) Philippolis/Adam Kok's Land (1826–1861) Waterboer's Land (1813–1871) Boer Burgher (Boer republics) Trekboers Afrikaner nationalism...

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Stellaland

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State of Goshen, named after the biblical Land of Goshen, was founded by Nicolaas Claudius Gey van Pittius in October 1882 in the neighbouring area called...

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State of Goshen

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to the Boer mercenaries who had supported him. The mercenaries, led by Nicolaas Claudius Gey van Pittius, immediately declared independence (followed by...

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