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Jan Christoffel Hofmeyr
Jan Christoffel Hofmeyr (8 May 1829 – 17 February 1898) also known as Stoffel Hofmeyr was a notary, financier, benefactor and Mayor of Cape Town. Early life and career Hofmeyr was the second son of Hendrik Johannes Hofmeyr and his wife Antonia Maria Berrangé. He attended the Tot Nut van het Algemeen school for 1835 to 1838 and the South African College from 1839 to 1841, where he was taught by Dr Antoine Changuion and developed a great love for the Dutch language and culture. As a young man he relocated to Burgersdorp as a legal agent and wool speculator. He was registered as a notary A notary is a person authorised to perform acts in legal affairs, in particular witnessing signatures on documents. The form that the notarial profession takes varies with local legal systems. A notary, while a legal professional, is disti ... in 1853 and as a conveyancer in 1863. Public life Hofmeyr returned to Cape Town in 1865 as a wealthy man and as he engaged in moneylending on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Cape Town
The Mayor of Cape Town is the head of the local government of Cape Town, South Africa; currently that government takes the form of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality. In the past, the position of Mayor has varied between that of an executive mayor actively governing the city and that of a figurehead mayor with a mostly ceremonial role. The current mayor is Geordin Hill-Lewis of the Democratic Alliance (DA) Current office This is a list of mayors of Cape Town in South Africa: City of Cape Town (December 2000–present) Historic offices Metropolitan Local Councils (June 1996–December 2000) Cape Metropolitan Council (CMC) * Attie Adriaanse (2000) ( NNP) * Rev William Bantom (1996 - 2000) ( NNP) City of Cape Town Municipality (Central Substructure) * Nomaindia Mfeketo (1998 - 2000) ( ANC) * Theresa Solomons (1996 - 1998) ( ANC) City of Tygerberg Municipality (Tygerberg Substructure) * Clifford Sitonga (1999 - 2000) ( ANC) * Lukas Olivier (1996 - 1999) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgersdorp
Burgersdorp is a medium-sized town in Walter Sisulu in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. In 1869 a Theological Seminary was established here by the ''Gereformeerde Kerk'', but in 1905 it was moved to Potchefstroom, acting as an instrument in the formation of the PUK in 1919, then becoming the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education in 1951. The Afrikaner Bond political party was founded in Burgersdorp in 1881. Demographics According to the 2011 census, the town of Burgersdorp proper has a population of 5,240, while the adjacent townships of Mzamomhle and Tembisa have populations of 4,656 and 6,094 respectively, giving the urban area a population of 15,990. Of this population 78.1% described themselves as Black African, 11.98% as Coloured and 9.4% as White. 69.2% spoke Xhosa as their home language, 20.1% spoke Afrikaans, 3.3% spoke Sotho, 1.4% spoke English as their home language and 6.0% spoke some other langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. * January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, ''J'Accuse…!'', is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper ''L'Aurore'', accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism. * February 12 – The automobile belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton rolls out of control down a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on a public highway. * February 15 – Spanish–American War: The USS Maine (ACR-1), USS ''Maine'' explodes and sinks in Havana Harbor, Cuba, for reasons never fully establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1829 Births
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Groote Kerk, Cape Town
The Groote Kerk (Afrikaans and Dutch for "Great Church") is a Dutch Reformed church in Cape Town, South Africa. The church is South Africa's oldest place of Christian worship, built by Herman Schuette in 1841. The first church on this land was built in 1678. Willem Adriaan van der Stel laid the cornerstone for the church. It was replaced by the present building in 1841, but the original tower was retained. The pulpit is the work of Anton Anreith and the carpenter Jacob Graaff, and was inaugurated on 29 November 1789. The Groote Kerk lays claim to housing South Africa's largest organ, which was installed in 1954 and has 5917 pipes. Background At first the colonists, landing beginning in 1652 at the Cape of Good Hope, relied on a lay preacher (''sieketrooster'', Dutch for "comforter of the ill") named Willem Wylant. He regularly preached in the Fort, taught children, and evangelized to natives. The first communion was held on May 12, 1652, by a visiting pastor, the Rev. Johan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afrikaner Bond
The Afrikaner Bond (Afrikaans and Dutch for "Afrikaner Union"; South African Dutch: Afrikander Bond) was founded as an anti-imperialist political party in 19th century southern Africa. While its origins were largely in the Orange Free State, it came to have a significant presence across the region, and especially in the Cape Colony and the Transvaal. The Afrikaner Bond was distinct from the later Afrikaner Broederbond which, while similarly named, was a secret cultural organisation formed in 1918, not a political party. Formation and parent organisations The original Afrikaner Bond was formed by the union in 1881 of the '' Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners'' (Society of True Afrikaners) of Rev S.J. du Toit, and the ''Zuidafrikaansche Boeren Beschermings Vereeniging'' (South African Farmers' Protection Association) of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. Instrumental in this union and the resultant establishment of the Bond party across southern Africa was a German named Borckenhagen who li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conveyancer
In most Commonwealth countries, a conveyancer is a specialist lawyer who specialises in the legal aspects of buying and selling real property, or conveyancing. A conveyancer can also be (but need not be) a solicitor, licensed conveyancer, or a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives. In England and Wales, conveyancers are regulated by an official body known as the Council for Licensed Conveyancers. Its main purpose is to set entry standards and regulate the profession of licensed conveyancers effectively in order to secure adequate consumer protection, promote effective competition in the legal services market and provide choice for consumers. Services offered by conveyancers vary from Residential Conveyancing, Probate Probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased, or whereby the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy in the sta ... and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives German and English. '' Afrikaans'' is a separate but somewhat mutually intelligible daughter languageAfrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans was historically called Cape Dutch; see , , , , , . Afrikaans is rooted in 17th-century dialects of Dutch; see , , , . Afrikaans is variously described as a creole, a partially creolised language, or a deviant variety of Dutch; see . spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, evolving from the Cape Dutch dialects of Southern Africa. The dialects used in Belgium (including Flemish) and in Suriname, meanwhile, are all guided by the Dutch Language Union. In Europe, most of the population of the Netherlands (where it is the only official language sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Philip (South African Politician)
John Philip or Phillip may refer to: *John Phillip (poet) (before 1540—after 1590), English dramatist * John Philip (missionary) (1775–1851), Scottish advocate for indigenous rights in South Africa * John 'Spanish' Phillip (1817–1867), Scottish painter * John Woodward "Jack" Philip (1840–1900), American admiral *John R. Philip John Robert Philip AO FAA FRS (18 January 1927, Ballarat26 June 1999, Amsterdam) was an Australian soil physicist and hydrologist, internationally recognised for his contributions to the understanding of movement of water, energy and gases. Whi ... (1927–1999) Australian soil physicist See also * John Phillips (other) * {{hndis, Philip, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Changuion
Jonkheer Antoine Nicolas Ernest Changuion (15 December 1803 in The Hague – 14 October 1881 in Lörrach, Switzerland) was a Dutch educator, writer, politician, orator, journalist, and main leader of the Dutch movement in South Africa.Changuion, A. N. E. De nederduitsche taal in Zuid-Afrika hersteld, 1844: t.p. (A.N.E. Changuion; Ph. Theor. Mag. & Lit. Hum. Doct.)Koninklijke Bibliotheek catalog, searched Sept. 29, 2006: (Changuion, Antoine Nicolas Ernest; 1803-1881) Ancestry His lineage stems from Dutch nobility, with the earliest documented origin of the Changuion family being from France where his ancestor, Pierre Changuion, a Huguenot farmer, had his lands and home burned along with his entire village during the Massacre of Vassy (1562). After this event the Changuions still remained in numbers in France. A large part of the Changuion family eventually emigrated to the Netherlands in 1685. Early life Due to the financial problems of Antoine 's parents, François Daniël Changu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tot Nut Van Het Algemeen
Tot Nut van het Algemeen (''trans.'' 'For the good of all'), commonly known as Tot Nut, was a Dutch-medium school in Cape Town from 1804 to 1870. Description The school catered for all nationalities and played an important role in educating the Dutch-speaking children of the Cape Colony. Its curriculum included modern and ancient languages, literature, mathematics drawing and vocal music. The school also maintained a preparatory section for infants. Staff were drawn from scholars, divines of different denominations and eminent professionals. The precise location of the school has been a matter of some uncertainty. A recent study, however, has identified its original location as being in Strand Street, on the site of the present Cape Sun Hotel. In 1833 the school moved to a new building in Queen Victoria Street, a site which is today occupied by the annexe to the Cape High Court. Schröder's memento states quite categorically that it was in New Street. The school remained on this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
