Transvaal in a sentence

President Kruger and what remained of the Transvaal government had retreated to eastern Transvaal.

The British pointed out that the Convention of Pretoria of 3 August 1881 citation referred to the 'Transvaal Territory' and that the Transvaal and the South African Republic did not have the same boundaries.

Western Transvaal The Boer commandos in the Western Transvaal were very active after September 1901.

At its Calcutta Session, the Congress took note of Gandhi and the Indian community’s protests in Transvaal, South Africa, seeking the repeal of the province’s anti-Asiatic legislation, and congratulated him.

The appeal was heard in the then Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court and dismissed on 8 November 1960.

She was involved in the women’s movement and mobilised women in Alexandra for the Transvaal demonstrations against the passes for African women.

It is the North versus South derby that we heard about this week and there is history between these two teams playing against each other whether between Western Province and Northern Transvaal or the Bulls against the Stormers.

It was won by Bill Rowan, a 26-year old Transvaal farmer in a time of 8:59, which would be the slowest winning time in the history of the race.

Marks’ most flagrant abuse of his position was with the Rae-Transvaal Gold Mining Company, a firm that he tipped heavily in his newspaper.

In 1899, the British issued an ultimatum demanding the Transvaal repeal all legislation restricting the rights of foreigners and that they cease importing weapons from Germany.

Also established was a Municipal Government, Witwatersrand District court and the High Court of Transvaal.

Although hounded by British columns, he succeeded in crossing the Vaal into western Transvaal, to allow Steyn to travel to meet their leaders.

An example of this is in the story The Terror of the Transvaal where a flat Mickey can be seen under an elephant's foot.

A Reform Committee (Transvaal) was formed to represent the uitlanders.

As a result, the Transvaal reluctantly acquiesced to the immigration of uitlanders (foreigners), mainly from Britain, who came to the Boer region in search of fortune and employment.

A time of relative quiet descended thereafter on the western Transvaal.

Certain self-appointed uitlanders representatives and British mine owners became increasingly angered and frustrated by their dealings with the Transvaal government.

Each sister had mated with a wild male from the Transvaal region (where king cheetahs had been recorded).

Following graduation, de Klerk practised law in Vereeniging in the Transvaal.

Gold made the Transvaal the richest and potentially the most powerful nation in southern Africa; however, the country had neither the manpower nor the industrial base to develop the resource on its own.