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“Farm Murders” 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 SAPS 2016/17 "official" figures: 74 Murders from 638 Attacks TAU 2016/17 "official" figures: 78 Murders from 406 Attacks According to the police’s crime statistics, the figures for farm attacks and murders increased drastically for the 2016/2017 year under report. Farm murders increased with 27,5% and farm attacks with 22,9% Definitio...
“Farm Murders” 1st April 2018 - 31st March 2019 There are 46 Victims remembered in this project This figure includes 5 couples (farmer and wife) between 10/05/2018 - 14/12/2018 32 Victims were aged between 60 - 79 April 2018 Heila Killian (62) 16/04/2018 Stilbaai, Garden Route, WC (shot dead) external link Des Krause (63) 17/04/2018 Summerpride 1, Nkqonkqweni, King Williams Town, EC...
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the Dadswell family of South Africa. Core profiles Robert Doudeswell b c1560- bur Sep 22 1636 Rotherfield, Sussex, England, Married c 1586 Elizabeth ? Robert Doudeswell bap 22 Sep 1606 Rotherfield, Sussex, England, d 9 Sep 1676 Rotherfield, Sussex, England, Married 4 April 1658 Mary Aynscombe b Aug 18 16...
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the Nel/ Nell family of South Africa. Please feel free to add whatever seems useful or interesting to you. Don't worry about getting formatting wrong - somebody else can easily fix that.=Core profiles=* Guillaume Néel bap 25 December 1663 Quevilly, Rouen, Normandie, France* Estienne Niel b c1668 Dauphine, Fran...
Countries so far included === - Australia; Canada; Indonesia; Lebanon; Russia; USA. Please add to the list as necessary This project is for Early Settlers in South Africa who came from countries not yet included in other projects. If in time individual countries get to be too large to be included in these pages we can move them to projects of their own.
South Africa is mining country (it's also 'farming' country, but that's a different project :-)=Mining Greats=* Barney Barnato * Cecil John Rhodes *George Harrison - prospector (dates unknown) who discovered the gold bearing Main Reef on the farm Langlaagte in 1886, which lead to the gold rush on the Witwatersrand and the creation of Johannesburg.* Harry Oppenheimer (1908-2000). Businessman - D...
PAARDEBERG 18 February to 27 February 1900 ' On 18 February 1900, British forces began to besiege a Boer army commanded by General Piet Cronje at Paardeberg Drift on the banks of the Modder River (See map showing the position of the XIX Brigade on 18 February 1900). Among the attacking force were 31 officers and 866 other ranks of the 2nd (Special Service) Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment ...
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the Ochse family of South Africa. =Core profiles=* Christian George Ochse, SV/PROG * Ann Munday, SM/PROG =OCHSE FAMILY - SOUTH AFRICAN GENEALOGY=The genealogical ancestor of all members of the Ochse family in South Africa was Christian George Ochse, SV/PROG , the son of Christian George Ochse, born on 15 Febru...
South Africa's Research Log The purpose of this project is to: Log or register your areas of interest and research, so project initiators can target the relevant people to collaborate with. Bring people who have similar interests together. Identify projects that require help and areas that need researching. To list new ideas for projects. Stimulate interest in dormant projects. ...
Aim To pool our thoughts, DNA results & research, & try and figure out which descent lines come from Catharina van Malabar, & by which man. =Catharina van Malabar Timelinec1637* b c.1637 said to be from Batavia/ the Malabar Coast /Bengal /the Coromandel Coast. 1662* Came to SA from Batavia 2 April 1662 as the personal slave of Maria de Bucquoij 1665*6 September 1665 Catharina van Malabar was ow...
This project provides an informative overview of all the projects on SA Progenitors, & is NOT intended to have profiles attached to it . It is all-embracing and aims to have no political influences or connotations. We pay tribute to all our progenitors & their descendants, who are more than bodies of data on a World Tree, but embody, in us, the Bantu principle of “Ubuntu” – I am because we ar...
WOODHEAD FAMILY starting with the prog. SIR JOHN WOODHEAD of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England and his wife LADY MARGARETTA WOODHEAD (MAYNARD) from Hull, East Yorkshire England, who settled in Cape Town on 20 January 1897 For more details read The Gifts of a Gentleman, Sir John Woodhead, 5 November 2014, Eben van Tonder, Cape Town. This project has been set up to service the Woodhead tree o...
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the van der Merwe family of South Africa. =Core profiles=* Willem Schalk van der Merwe x Koddo van Guinea c 1640 -*b1 Maria Schalck 22 Jan 1702* Feytje (Sophia) van der Merwe 2 Nov 1670 - x Roelof Pasman xx Pieter Robberts
This project is designed to collect Research Information, Discussions, Queries etc on the Rossouw /Rousseau family of South Africa. =Core profiles=* Pierre Rousseau c 1666 - c 1719*x 1689 Anne Retif, SM/PROG 1671 - 1710>*b1 Anna Rousseau b. 8 Jul 1691, d. 28 Feb 1753>*b2 Maria Rousseau b. c 1694>*b3 Magdalena Rousseau b. 26 Feb 1695>*b4 Elizabet Rousseau b. b 14 Oct 1696, d. 16 Feb 1785>*b5 Ale...
About this project This project is designed to place all the Barry families in South Africa together to see under which progenitor they belong and to collect research information, discussions, and queries etc. There is also a Barry DNA project that can be found at www.familytreedna.com How to Participate If you have an ancestor who was a Barry Get yourself added as a collaborator Navig...
All those from the Cape Colony and Natal Colony wiho fought and died on the Anglo side during the war British expeditionary efforts were aided significantly by local colonial forces from the Cape Colony, the Natal Colony, Rhodesia During the war, the British army also included substantial contingents from South Africa itself. There were large communities of English-speaking immigrants and set...
The President's Keepers : Those Keeping Zuma in Power and out of Prison a 2017 book by Jacques Pauw , an investigative journalist from South Africa about allegedly corrupt and compromised power networks in the government of ex-President Jacob Zuma. [BOOK EXTRACT] THE PRESIDENT’S KEEPERS Jacques Pauw Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw exposes the darkest secret at the heart of Jacob Zum...
Project to be developed. Please ask to join and come and help create it - feel free to add your own line.=Key Profiles:* Michiel Cornelisz Smuts, SV/PROG m Cornelia Schreuder / Smuts, SM/PROG : * Descent Line:a1. Michiel Cornelisz Smuts, SV/PROG m Cornelia Schreuder / Smuts, SM/PROG b1 . Adriaan Smuts
Cape Town Rifles ( Dukes ) Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles “The Cape Town Rifles (Dukes), the second oldest regiment in the South African Army, was established in 1855 and has been fighting South Africa’s wars ever since. The Regiment was founded on 28 November 1855, as the Cape Rifle Corps. It was the first volunteer unit in the Cape Colony. On 30 September 1867, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edin...
Early Women Immigrants to South Africa who came alone== It is emphasised that although most of the woman listed became SM/Matriarchs/Progenitors of families in South Africa they came alone and married in South Africa. *Initially the main source used is incorporated in the German Personalia by Dr Hoge under the 4th heading Women Immigrants . Please use other available sources that you know of an...
The curators are currently in discussion with GENi management on a solution for the placement of our DVN / DVP no.s which will should satisfy all parties...===Please VOTE for how we will in future use of the De Villiers Pama Numbering System (DVP)==== STEM asseblief vir die manier hoe Genealogie, in die Suid Afrikaanse boom, in die vervolg van die De Villiers-Pama Numering Stelsel (DVP), gebrui...
The Zuid-Beveland arrives in Table Bay 19 August 1688 * Ship’s type: Pinas * Construction: Built in 1680 for the Chamber of Zeeland at the VOC ship yard in Middelburg.* Term: In use by the VOC from 1681 until it burnt out in 1690 in Amsterdam.* Length: 130 feet* Breadth: 31 feet* Draught (depth): 13,5 feet* Loading capacity: 518 tons* Flag: Chamber of Zeeland =Voyage to the Cape:*Date of depart...
This Portal or Master Project is to link all the projects related to Africa and the African Continent. Africa An African Diaspora sub-project will be added. This is a work in progress. Much help is needed!==What can you do here?==*Ask questions.*Collaborate on your research.*Share knowledge you have gained as you've done your own research in a specific area.*Problem finding an ancestors , open ...
Founders Effect amongst the South African Population=The Afrikaner community are a geographically isolated group and it is assumed that founder effect has given rise to the high prevalence of some 20 inherited disorders in this community.==Project Aim:==To list all hereditary diseases that affect South Africans, and to attempt to trace the "Founder" individual / individuals who introduced the d...
Kaapsehoop South Africa (established in 1882) Coordinates for finding Kaapsehoop on Google Earth. 25°35'28.66"S 30°45'59.65"E or click here to see it in Google Maps.==Brief History==It was the discovery of gold in 1882 the streams around what is known today as Kaapsehoop also known as Kaapshehoop or Kaapschehoop that led to the establishment of the town. Gold was also discovered in the small cr...