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The surfer tackled by a Belmar cop last summer during a confrontation over whether he needed a beach badge pleaded guilty Tuesday to violating the town’s badge ordinance. Liam Mahoney ...
Moving in great wagon trains for safety’s sake and driving their cattle before them, the emigrants swarmed in—in such numbers that by 1852 more than 40,000 voortrekkers had made the journey ...
In 1838 a column of 600 Boers in white covered wagons was trekking northward from the Cape colony into Natal; the bearded Voortrekkers (pioneers), who wanted to get away from the hated British and ...
Officers give children the change to paint their nails. With this, the Voortrekkers are throwing out the challenge to all men. Are you a man enough to paint a pink ribbon on your nails?
He was friendly to visitors from overseas, even welcoming Christian missionaries. In 1838, Dingane agreed to a request for land from about 600 Dutch Voortrekkers on condition that they recover some of ...
It is difficult today to say who the victors were in a month-long stand-off between the Kekana Ndebele chiefdom and the Voortrekkers 150 years ago. At first, the Kekana seemed to be the losers ...