Simon van der Stel 14 October 1639 – 24 June 1712 was the last commander and first Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony, the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. Contents 1Background 2Career 3Legacy 4References 5External links Background Simon was the son of Adriaan van der Stel, an official of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
Sir Andries Stockenström, 1st Baronet, 6 July 1792 in Cape Town – 16 March 1864 in London was lieutenant governor of British Kaffraria from 13 September 1836 to 9 August 1838. His efforts in restraining colonists from moving into Xhosa lands served to make him immensely unpopular among the settlers of the Cape Colony frontier.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet, GCB 28 June 1787 – 12 October 1860 was a notable English soldier and military commander in the British Army of the early 19th century. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, he is also particularly remembered for his role in the Battle of Aliwal (India) in 1846, and as
xSir Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine 1809–1891 was at various times administrator of Natal, the Gold Coast, Antigua, the Leeward Islands and Western Australia. Life Born in 1809 in London, Benjamin Pine was educated in Brighton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He became a career officer in the British Colonial Service. From 1850 to 1855, he was Lieutenant-Governor of
Lieutenant General Sir Benjamin D’Urban GCB KCH FRS 16 February 1777 – 25 May 1849 was a British general and colonial administrator, who is best known for his frontier policy when he was the Governor in the Cape Colony (now in South Africa). Contents 1Early career 2Foreign service 3Trouble 4Later career 5References Early career D’Urban was born in Halesworth,
Jonkheer Jan Willem Janssens GCMWO 12 October 1762 – 23 May 1838 was a Dutch nobleman, soldier and statesman who served both as the governor of the Dutch Cape Colony and governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Contents 1Early life 2Batavian Republic 3Kingdom of Holland and the French Empire 4Post-Napoleonic War career 5Decorations and medals
Sir George Grey, KCB 14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898 was a British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer. He served in a succession of governing positions: Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony, and the 11th Premier of New Zealand. Grey was born in Lisbon, Portugal, just
Craig Michael Williamson born 1949, is a former South African Police major who was exposed as a spy in 1980, and was involved in a series of state-sponsored overseas bombings, burglaries, kidnappings, assassinations and propaganda during the apartheid era. Contents 1Spy career 1.1Infiltration 1.2Dirty tricks 1.3Counter-intelligence 2Bombing and burglary 2.1PAC office in London 2.2ANC
Adriaan Johannes Vlok born 11 December 1937 is a South African politician. He was Minister of Law and Order in South Africa from 1986 to 1991 in the final years of the apartheid era. Facing increasingly intense opposition and political unrest in this period, the South African government – through the State Security Council of which Vlok was a member – planned and
Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche 31 January 1941 – 3 April 2010 was an Afrikaner nationalist and white supremacist who founded and led the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB; Afrikaner Resistance Movement in English). Prior to founding the AWB, Terre’Blanche served as a South African Police officer, was a farmer, and was an unsuccessful Herstigte Nasionale Party (Reconstituted National Party) candidate for local office in the Transvaal. He was a major