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Full name: Captain / Commandant Daniël Johannes Stephanus Theron Lifespan: 1872 Tulbagh - 1900 Fochville [28] Occupation: Military officer, teacher, lawyer. Danie Theron³ Danie Theron was a legendary Boer Army military officer, master scout, and guerrilla leader during the Second Anglo-Boer War. He is remembered for his bravery, his mastery of reconnaissance, and for pioneering the use of bicycles in warfare. The British Commander-in-Chief, Lord Roberts, famously referred to him as "the hardest thorn in the flesh of the British advance" and put a £1,000 bounty on his head (dead or alive). Through his daring visit to Gen. Cronje, when the latter was surrounded by an overwhelming force at Paardeberg, he became widely known. With his T.V.K., he covered the rear guard of Gen. de Wet’s trek to Waterberg and subsequently returned to the Free State, after which he operated successfully against the enemy's lines of communication on both sides of the Vaal River and in the wester...

Aka: Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk (Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa) Built: 1976 Architect: Unidentified Location: Cnr R515 & Zonderwater Rd, Cullinan. North-west elevation¹ Image source: Premiermyn Hervormde Kerk on FB. Locality map Sources Die Hervormer, Sept 1976.  

Full name: Christiaan Johannes Jacobus Joubert Lifespan: 1834 Swartberg, Beaufort, Cape Colony - 1911 Pretoria [77] Occupation: Politician, farmer Joubert was a prominent South African statesman and official in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), widely recognized as one of the co-namers of the city of Johannesburg. Christiaan Joubert⁶ Timeline Short biography At the age of 3 (c.1837), his family trekked from the Cape Colony, seeking to distance themselves from British Rule. Joubert's father, Petrus Jacobus Joubert (bef. 1786 - 1843) established a missionary station at Zoar, and was one of the religious leaders at the Slag van Bloedrivier (Battle of Blood River). Christiaan married Johanna Magdalena Cornelia Vermaak (1836 Cape - 1908 Pretoria) in c.1855. They had nine children. He was only 31 years old (c.1865) when he was elected to the Volksraad as a member for Pretoria. As a member of important public commissions, he quickly drew attention and became a member of the Uitvo...

Aka: Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk (Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa) Built: 1946 Architect: Unidentified Location: Jacobs St, Cathcart North-west elevation¹ The building has been extended around the tower, and is currently used by a different denomination. Locality map Sources Van der Westhuizen, S.J. (1976) Queenstown . Die Hervormer, Nov 1976.  

Full name:  Ernst Karl Erich Mayer Lifespan:  1876 Germany - 1960 Pretoria [84] Occupation: Artist Primary Mediums: Watercolors, oil paintings, sketches, and woodcuts. Key Subjects: Highveld landscapes, rural farm life, Baobab trees (Kremetartbome), vernacular architecture. Erich Mayer² Timeline Early Life & Architectural Beginnings Ernst Karl Erich Mayer was born on April 19, 1876, in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was awarded a bursary to study architecture at Charlottenburg Technische Hochschule (Berlin) from 1894-1896. He had to end his studies in 1896 due to illness, Seeking a warmer, healthier climate to aid his recovery, Mayer immigrated to South Africa in 1898 and initially found work as an assistant land-surveyor in Vrede, Free State. Technische Universität Berlin . Image source: Industriekultur. Wartime Confinements and Exile When the Anglo-Boer War broke out in 1899, he actively joined a Boer commando unit. He spent his nights sketching the local farmers and landscap...

Established: 1929 Established by: Machteld Postmus Purpose: Elderly care, frail care Initial branches: Ons Tuis, Soutpansbergweg, Pretoria Machteld Postmushuis, Alexander Rd, Pretoria / Machteld Postmus-tehuis Ons Tuis, Observatory Rd, Johannesburg Machteld Postmus (AI enhanced portrait)¹ Timeline The Ons Tuis complex: Ons Tuis (Soutpansberg Road, Pretoria), Machteld Postmus House (Alexander Street, Pretoria), and Ons Tuis (Observatory Road, Johannesburg) were born in 1929 out of the initiative of Mrs Machteld Postmus, wife of a former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank. Dr Johannes Postmus (1877 Netherlands - 1947) was the second Governor of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) from 1932 until 1945. ² The beginning was small: a house in Schubart Street, Pretoria, with just two residents. On 1 April 1929, the first Ons Tuis was officially opened in Proes Street, Pretoria, with 14 elderly residents. In 1933, the home was relocated to the nurses' home of the old General Hospital in...

Built: c.1917 Architect: Unidentified Status: Demolished Address: 1003 Schoeman St, Pretoria. North (street) elevation (photo c.1967). This was the family home of Prof. Dr. J.H.J.A. Greyvenstein from 1917 to 1967.