More and more married people have to spend time apart because of work. This kind of lifestyle raises particular challenges for any couple. Special skills are needed to face them – which this title provides. ...
From 1872 to 1889 the history of South Africa is that of quick development based upon great mineral discoveries in Kimberley, the Transvaal, and Rhodesia-all now united to the Ports of the Cape Colony and Natal by means of railways. The bond of federation must follow. Within the last quarter of a ce ...
Alfred Hillier was a medical doctor in Johannesburg and Member of the Reform Committee when he joined Jameson on his disastrous armed raid of the South African Republic (Transvaal) in 1895. The conspirators were captured and the Raid caused outcry both in South Africa and in Britain. This book conta ...
Alfred Aylward, an Irishman by birth, was editor of the Natal Witness when he had to vacate his position as a result of his critical views on the British actions in the Transvaal. Early 1881, he fled Natal and joined the Boer forces in the South African Republic (Transvaal) where he became Captain o ...
The Church of England is the oldest of the English speaking Churches in South Africa. The first service on record was held at Cape Town on 20 April 1794. Regular services commenced in 1806 in Cape Town after the British occupation of this Colony.For 27 years these continued in the Groote Kerk, an ea ...
Travels and researches of eminent English missionaries: Including an historical sketch of the progress and present state of some of the principal Protestant missions of late years ...
Ten years have elapsed since I wrote these studies of Johannesburg in the Transvaal. The book has lived to reappear in this new edition ...
Arthur Douglas was an ostrich farmer near Grahamstown who built and patented the first incubator for ostrich eggs, the Eclipse, in 1896, after which the industry grew rapidly. ...
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Robert Gray, the son of Robert Gray, Bishop of Bristol, was ordained as Anglican Bishop of the in Westminster Abbey in 1847, and he arrived in South Africa early in 1848. Initially Gray's diocese spanned the whole of the then Cape Colony and Natal, but in 1853 the diocese was divided into three smal ...