Pioneers, Plunderers, and Patroits: History of The Bekker Family in South Africa

Adriaan Afrikaans Alewyn ancestors ANGLO-ZULU WAR Apartheid battle Bekker family believed Blacks born Britain British rule brother Bywoners camp Cape Colony Carbineers Catharina cattle Cetshwayo Chapter child of Pieter citizens command crops daughter death diamond died Dingaan direct descendant Dorothea Durnford Dutch early East Eastern Cape economic Empire Europe European farm farmers father fight force fought Frederik Godlieb Graaff-Reinet grandfather grazing Hendrik Bekker herds Hlubi hundred independence India Ishlandwana Jacobus Jeanne Johannes Jurgen joined Khoi labour land later leaders lives Maria married Marthinus Bekker Marthinus Johannes Bekker Middelburg mines mother moved Natal Niekerk Orange Free Oudtshoorn Petrus Pieter Bekker Pietermaritzburg plunder population Pretorius protect recorded River second Anglo-Boer second Anglo-Boer war settled settlers Shaw slaves social justice soldiers South Africa Stephanus Bekker suffered Swellendam town trade Transvaal Republic Trek Boers troops twenty Voortrekkers wars White widow wife Xhosa Zulu army Zulu Nation