Stellaland

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Republiek Stellaland
Republic of Stellaland
1882-1883
Flag of Stellaland (1883-5) .svg
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Motto : "Gewapend en Regtvaardig"
NDL. , "Armed and Righteous"
Official language Dutch
Capital Vryburg
Form of government republic
Head of state , also head of government President Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk
surface 19,290 km²
population 37,500, including 5,000 whites (Boers and English)
Population density 1.5 inhabitants per km²
currency South African pond
independence July 1882
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Stellaland (officially Dutch Republiek Stellaland ) was a short-lived Boer republic . Founded in 1882, the Republic of Stellaland united with the Republic of Goshen to form the United States of Stellaland after only two years .

The British protectorate of Bechuanaland bordered Stellaland to the north and west and the South African Republic to the east and south. Today the area is part of the Republic of South Africa .

history

Stellalandes around 1884 (published 1885 in Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen )

Stellaland owed its origin to a conflict between the indigenous Batlaping and Koranna tribes . David Massouw , the leader of the Koranna, had promised a group of about 400 Boers settlement land in return for their support in the fight against the Batlaping. After defeating them, the republic was officially founded on July 26, 1882.

The first and only President of the Republic was Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk (1849-1896). The Boers formed a commission, which staked out the area of ​​the future capital Vryburg and exactly 416 parcels. These parcels were then distributed by lot .

The Republic of Stellaland was divided into five field cornets:

  • Genesa (northwest)
  • Tweelings-Kop (northeast)
  • Hart-Rivier (southeast)
  • Poeloemoe (southwest)
  • Vryburg (center)

literature

  • Hans Bornman: Vryburg, 1882-1982. Stadsraad van Vryburg, Vryburg 1982, ISBN 0-620-05988-5 .
  • CG Dennison: History of Stellaland. Now the district of Vryburg, Bechuanaland . Pretorius Brothers, Vryburg 1928.
  • Daniel Wilhelmus Krüger: The Republiek Stellaland . University of South Africa, Pretoria 1930 ( online ).
  • Roger Webster: The Boer Republics of Stellaland and Goshen. In: Roger Webster: The Illustrated At The Fireside. True Southern African Stories . Global, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-86486-558-8 , pp. 22-25 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • H. Wichmann: Republic of Stella-Land. In: Dr. A. Petermann's communications from Justus Perthes' geographical institute. Volume 30, 1884, p. 433.
  • H. Wichmann: The Republic of Stella-Land. In: Dr. A. Petermann's communications from Justus Perthes' geographical institute. Volume 31, 1885, pp. 60-64.
  • Stellaland. In: Paul Heichen (Hrsg.): Afrika Hand-Lexikon. Gressner & Schramm, Leipzig year 1885, pp. 1228–1229 ( online ; PDF; 48.1 MB).

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