Orange River Colony

Upon a day near the end of August, one long, brilliant South African winter, when the old Vierkleur waved over the Transvaal, and what is now the Orange River Colony was the Orange Free State, with the Dutch canton still showing on the staff-head corner of its tribarred flag, two large, heavily-laden waggons rolled over the grass-veld, only now thinking about changing from yellow into green.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

Dutch families from the British Colony of the Cape of Good Hope to the new realms we now know as the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal.

The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896

In the Afrikaner Republic there was no history of involvement in constitutional or electoral politics, and the focus of the Orange River Colony

"Two Wings of a Great Movement" 2001

Orange River Colony, explaining the results of his mission at well attended public meetings in most of the major urban centers of the province.

"Two Wings of a Great Movement" 2001

He became Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony when the bitter pill of defeat had to be swallowed.

THE FIRST BRAM FISCHER MEMORIAL LECTURE 1995

In the Transvaal, Het Volk was established in 1905 and during the same year the Orangia Unie was founded at a meeting held at Brandfort in the Orange River Colony.

THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION IN SOUTH AFRICA 1992

Cape, Transvaal and Orange River Colony until the British Statute of 20th September 1909 called The South Africa Act. One of the reasons the four colonies were united as "South Africa" was to fight what the colonialists called "native danger" - that is the indigenous African majority.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

The Chinese importations, colour bars on the mines, and the transfer of ultimate power to settlers in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony stirred Abdurahman to anger.

Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 6 Ray Esther 1969

Africans in the Orange River Colony petitioned Britain in 1902 for political rights and the removal of colour bars; and received only windy assurances of goodwill.

file:///D:/Data/HTML/BOOKS/src/sfsa03.txt Ray Esther 1969

But does it need a greater courage, a greater belief in the value of the democratic principle than the grant of self-government to the Transvaal and to the Orange River Colony within a few years of the Boer War?

Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys