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	GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg273 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Christoffel Grobler was born on 26 Feb 1865 in Brandfort, Ofs, South Africa.
		Marthinus Jacobus Steyn Grobler was born on 23 Jul 1877 in Brandfort, Ofs, South Africa.
		Johannes Paulus Grobler was born on 16 Jul 1883 in Brandfort, Ofs, South Africa.
	myweb.absa.co.za /johann.grobler/pafg273.htm (1286 words)

	Routes Travel Info Portal: Brandfort
		Brandfort means Burning Fort after a small fotrification on the farm which had been burnt down by a Sotho tribe
		Brandfort was established on the farm Keerom occupied by Jaconus van Zijl around 1838.
		Farming: Brandfort is a centre for wool and maize, and situated in the Maize Triangle.
	www.routes.co.za /fs/brandfort (74 words)

	Brandfort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Brandfort is a small South African town in the central Free State Province.
		Brandfort is situated on the R30, between Bloemfontein and Theunissen.
		She was banned from leaving Brandfort for the next eight years, but ever defiant, Winnie Mandela admits to regularly travelling to Johannesburg, and specifically Soweto, the large township on the outskirts of the city.
	www.realfact.net /Brandfort.article00000154.html (2673 words)

	Nelson Mandela's Prison Letters - Brandfort
		Even though Brandfort is no more than a farming village, you have found your feet there and paid heavily for doing so.
		To rove around at this stage in your life is undesirable in spite of all the advantages it might have in regard to your study course.
		To move again to what are practically platteland areas where the police, superintendents, magistrates, have no experience at all in dealing with people like you and me will revive all the ugly problems we have experienced in the past seventeen years.
	home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/specialprojects/mandela/letters/letters14.htm (1853 words)

	GroblerGrobbelaar - pafg280 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		She was christened on 22 Oct 1876 in Brandfort, Ofs, South Africa.
		She was christened on 13 Jan 1878 in Brandfort, Ofs, South Africa.
		She was christened on 2 Dec 1883 in Brandfort, Ofs, South Africa.
	myweb.absa.co.za /johann.grobler/pafg280.htm (530 words)

	Volume THREE Chapter FOUR
		Mandela’s banishment to the remote town of Brandfort was apparently intended to weaken the ties between the influential community leader and the Sowetan youth who looked to her for political leadership.
		In 1980, white residents of Brandfort applied to the Minister of Justice to have her presence in the town reconsidered as it was causing ‘unhappiness’.
		She moved back to her house in Soweto and did not return to Brandfort in spite of a letter from the police saying that the house had been repaired and that she was required to return there by 4 November of that year.
	www.stanford.edu /class/history48q/Documents/EMBARGO/3chap4.htm (20936 words)

	16 May 1977 - Winnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela, was banished to a dusty Afrikaner dominated town of Brandfort in the Free State where she was unceremoniously dumped at house 802 with her youngest daughter, Zinzi.
		Helen Suzman captured the isolation when she wrote that Winnie waited outside the local telephone booth between 10 am and 4 pm waiting for calls from friends and relations.
		But when friends, like Helen Joseph, Barbara Waite, Ilona Kleinschmidt, and others came to visit her in Brandfort, they were harassed and often taken to court and imprisoned, for not notifying the authorities about their visits.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/chronology/thisday/1977-05-16.htm (255 words)

	frontline: the long walk of nelson mandela: husband & lover: interview with amina cachalia & rica hodgson (excerpt)
		First of all, because I was banned for many years before, but by that time she had already decided she wasn't going to live in Brandfort anymore, so she'd made excursions into Johannesburg quite often.
		Then she decided she was going to go back to Brandfort for a little while and come back, and she was never going to go back there again.
		I think along the line when she was in Brandfort, things were very difficult for her, and something along the line might have snapped.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/husband/cachalia.html (3981 words)

	janvorster - pafg470 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Philippina Martina Spies [Parents] was born on 3 Oct 1887 in Brandfort.
		She married Johannes Lodewyk Vorster on 29 Oct 1912 in Brandfort, OVS..
		Barend Johannes Vorster was born on 14 Mar 1914.
	general.rau.ac.za /genealogy/vorster/janvorste/pafg470.htm (793 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/general
		In Brandfort, the small Free State town to which Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was banished in the 70's, she is still a heroine.
		Brandfort, was the kind of dorp most people simply drove past.
		For nine years she lived in a three-roomed house and put dusty Brandfort on the map.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/general/0,2172,57609,00.html (283 words)

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		It happened that on their return from Virginia to Brandfort, Edward Phelane, as he was the driver to fetch that dynamite from Virginia, was detained together with the comrades who went to Virginia.
		As the self defence units of Brandfort we also realised that these people are going too far, we have to take a step to counteract what they were doing in the community and truly we came together as the self defence unit and we planned how to kill them.
		I asked from the comrades in Brandfort, I asked them as to whether I heard this kind of thing as to whether Mr Phelane was arrested with explosives, so the comrades told me that they heard that Mr Morgan Phelane was arrested with explosives and he was never trialed for that.
	www.doj.gov.za /trc/amntrans/bloem/bloem2_menera.htm (19767 words)

	BBC News \| The Winnie Mandela Trial \| Profile of Winnie Mandela
		Winnie was banished from Soweto to Brandfort in the Orange Free State, an area where she knew no-one and did not even speak the local dialect.
		She organised local clinics, campaigned actively for equal rights and was promoted by the ANC as a symbol of its struggle against apartheid.
		In 1985, she defied her banning order by returning to Soweto after her home in Brandfort was firebombed.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/special_report/1997/the_winnie_mandela_trial/33659.stm (980 words)

	memor1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		BRANDFORT, Free State -- President Thabo Mbeki and the Duke of Kent on Saturday laid wreaths at three historic grave sites here -- one of which was discovered two months ago -- to launch the official commemorative site of what is now referred to as the Anglo-Boer South African War.
		TRIBUTE: President Thabo Mbeki lays a wreath at a memorial to casualties of the Anglo-Boer War at Brandfort in the Free State on Saturday.
		IN MEMORIAL: England's Duke of Kent lays a wreath at the memorial of victims of the Anglo-Boer War on Saturday in Brandfort in the Free State.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1999/10/11/southafrica/MEMOR1.HTM (732 words)

	SAPA - 08 Sep 97 - I BURNT WINNIE'S BRANDFORT HOME - FORMER COP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sergeant Mohonaetse Motsamai (43) is applying for amnesty for murder, attacks on political activists, arson and the bombing of Mandela's house and clinic while she was banned in Brandfort during the 1980s.
		Motsamai on Monday testified before the Bloemfontein Truth and Reconciliation Commission's amnesty committee that he and a Sergeant Nkululeko Mamome set the house and clinic of Winnie Mandela in Brandfort alight on two occasions during her exile.
		Recordings of her conversations were taped at Brandfort police station.
	www.doj.gov.za /trc/media/1997/9709/s970908d.htm (445 words)

	Zamnet Communication Systems Limited
		The house Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was banished to by the apartheid authorities is to become a museum.
		During her nine-year exile in Brandfort, Ms Madikizela-Mandela was not allowed a telephone or to visit her husband regularly in jail and was kept away from the media, friends, colleagues.
		However, she still came to be seen abroad as a symbol of the fight against apartheid and was dubbed the "Mother of the nation" by many fl South Africans.
	www.zamnet.zm /newsys/news/viewnews.cgi?category=7&id=1127978004 (267 words)

	janvorster - pafg623 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Carole Magdalen Vorster [Parents] was born on 28 Aug 1958.
		Petrus Johannes Vorster [Parents] was born on 4 Apr 1903 in Brandfort.
		He was christened on 3 May 1905 in Brandfort.
	general.rau.ac.za /genealogy/vorster/janvorste/pafg623.htm (211 words)

	AfricaFiles \| Winnie Madikizela Mandela: Tragic figure? Populist tribune? Township tough?
		Ever since then there have been questions about her role in the assaults that occurred in the back rooms of her home in Soweto, in the disappearance of Lolo Sono, and in the death of Stompie Seipei, whose decomposed body was found months after his disappearance.
		What is intriguing is that the rumours of violence and assault against these and other youths, both at the end of the 1980s and earlier, when she was banished and living in Brandfort, and subsequent evidence of fraud and corruption which emerged in the early 1990s, did not end Winnie Mandela's political career.
		She set up a creche, a clinic and feeding schemes for the children of Brandfort, with the assistance of Dr. Abu Baker Asvat (in whose death she was later allegedly implicated).
	www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=3791 (5055 words)

	Rewriting the past and burying its future--not as difficult or uncommon
		He believes that the graves, each marked by a cairn, contain the remains of inmates from the nearby Allemans Siding Concentration Camp, one of three fl concentration camps built by the British near Brandfort.
		Dreyer believes that he has discovered the main fl graveyard at Brandfort because it is much closer to where he has plotted the concentration camp's location than the cemetery visited by President Mbeki.
		In the Free State archives he found a letter, dated 1902, from a lawyer claiming compensation from the British on behalf of a farmer whose land was used for a refugee camp and cemetery.
	www.mail-archive.com /fukuzawa@ucsd.edu/msg11027.html (2537 words)

	Winnie Mandela gave false alibi at trial, TRC told Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		Daniel Bosman, responsible for bugging Mrs Mandela's Soweto home in the late 1980s, told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission - the body investigating South Africa's apartheid past - that he had seen transcripts of telephone conversations which showed Mrs Mandela was in Soweto when Stompie Seipei Moeketsi, 14, was assaulted in her home.
		At TRC hearings in December witnesses portrayed Mrs Mandela as a violent and unpredictable woman who led the assault on Stompie, after accusing him of being a police spy.
		In the 1991 trial the Brandfort alibi cleared her of assault though she was convicted of kidnapping the boy.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19980129/ai_n9651718 (311 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Pics on stolen cellphone bust crooks
		Two men have been arrested in connection with an attack on an elderly couple at their home in Brandfort in the northern Free State late last year, police said on Tuesday.
		Senior Superintendent Sam Sesing said the two men, aged 25 and 38, were arrested in Theunissen on Tuesday morning after they were identified on photos taken with a cellphone stolen from the couple.
		Photos on the cellphone were linked to the attack on the couple and pictures of the three suspected robbers circulated in the media.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/408126.htm (209 words)

	Welcome to Eskom Distribution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		At sunset, Eskom's presence becomes visible at workers' houses on the farm Onserus in the Brandfort district.
		Today, most farmers realise that the capital they invest to electrify their workers' houses, reap handsome dividends in the form of productivity, health, preservation of the environment and loyalty.
		Koos van Wyk, cattle farmer from the Brandfort district, with his sheep.
	www.agrelek.co.za /advetorials.211.html (1111 words)

	Rumba
		Early in the campaign, when his officers had blundered, General White procession twenty-two thousand gentlemen in khaki wiped that line off before him through the town he had defended and saved.
		III--THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE The Boer "front" was at Brandfort, and, as Lord Roberts was advancing Brandfort." But before our train drew out of Pretoria Station we Boer front had been pushed back to Winburg.
		We decided that Brandfort was an impossible position to hold anyway, selfish consolation for the Boer repulse, in the fact that it awoke at the Vaal River Station the train despatcher informed us that burghers were gathered at Smaaldel.
	www.factspider.com /ru/rumba.html (270 words)

	Anglo-Boer war victims honored
		But now, for the first time, fl men, women and children who died in the Anglo-Boer War are being honored as the nation commemorates the conflict's 100th anniversary – and rewrites a national history in which whites received top billing and fls were footnotes at best.
		President Thabo Mbeki and the Duke of Kent are to lay wreaths tomorrow at the gravesites of Africans, Britons and Boers outside the town of Brandfort, 190 miles south of Johannesburg.
		An exhibit depicting the participation of fls opens today at the War Museum in nearby Bloemfontein, which previously described the conflict exclusively from the perspective of the Boers –; the descendants of Dutch and other European settlers.
	www.th-record.com /1999/10/08/boerwar.htm (440 words)

	blacksinboerwar108 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But now, for the first time, the fl men, women and children who died in the Boer War are being honored as South Africa commemorates the war's centennial and rewrites a national history in which fls were footnotes at best.
		President Thabo Mbeki and the Duke of Kent are to lay wreaths on Saturday at the graves of Africans, Britons and Boers outside Brandfort, 190 miles south of Johannesburg.
		An exhibit depicting the role of fls opens Friday in nearby Bloemfontein at the War Museum, which previously described the conflict exclusively from the perspective of the Boers, the descendants of Dutch and other European settlers.
	www.udel.edu /poscir/suedavis/blacksinboerwar108.htm (533 words)

	PRAAG:
		Die Afrikanervolk word nou tot eendragtige optrede opgeroep om sy regte op te eis, sy bestaansreg as volk te beveilig en binne ‘n gemenebes van Suid-Afrikaanse volke weer eens soos na 1902 hom te verbind tot die opbou van die enigste vaderland wat hy ken.
		Hierdie Deklarasie is vandag hier op Brandfort by die Brandfort-Konsentrasiekampkerkhof op die plaas Louvain namens die lede van die Afrikanervolk hier teenwoordig onderteken en sal aan die landsowerhede asook so wyd moontlik aan al ons landsburgers bekend gemaak word.
		Geteken op Brandfort by die Brandfort-Konsentrasiekampkerkhof op 31 Mei 2002.
	www.praag.org /chronologie.htm (1642 words)

	BBC News \| Africa \| 'Britain's shame' over Boer War
		The Duke, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth, was touring Boer and fl cemeteries around the city of Bloemfontein in Brandfort, 190 miles south of Johannesburg, with the South African President Thabo Mbeki.
		At least 12,000 fl people died in so-called concentration camps and thousands more were massacred.
		On Friday, a Boer War exhibition close to Brandfort reopened to include the participation of fl people in the conflict.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/469711.stm (581 words)

	VisitSouthAfrica.com - Accommodation Search in the Brandfort Area
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	www.visitsouthafrica.com /Search/Accomodation/FreeState/Areas/Western_Freestate/Accom_F_Area_Brandfort_Index.asp (82 words)

	Amsterdam News - Article - international news
		The Brandfort House in the Free State where Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former African National Congress Women's League president, was placed under house arrest for more than 10 years by the apartheid regime, is to be turned into a museum.
		This is part of government and civil society efforts to turn the rural town into one of the country's tourism meccas.
		An amount of 1.6 million rand has already been set aside for the construction of the Winnie Mandela Museum at 802 Mothupi Street in Majwemasweu, outside Brandfort.
	www.amsterdamnews.org /News/article/article.asp?NewsID=4794&sID=12 (135 words)

	Winnie Mandela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 1976, following her activities during the school uprising, she again served six months at "Number 4" (The Fort).
		On May 16 1977 she was exiled, taken directly from her prison cell, to Brandfort for nine years.
		Here her house was bombed twice and she was once again arrested for defying her restriction order and returning to Johannesburg.
	www.anc.org.za /people/mandela_nw.html (590 words)

	Christiaan de Wet, Three Years War. Chapter Four.
		The first business transacted referred to disciplinary matters; the council then proceeded to lay down the conditions under which the commandos were to operate.
		It was decided that General De la Rey with his Transvaalers should remain at Brandfort with certain Free State commandos under General Philip Botha, and that the remaining troops, under my command, should withdraw in the evening.
		Great was the curiosity of the officers and burghers concerning our movements, but no man learnt anything from me. I was determined that in future my plans should be kept entirely secret.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /dewet-chapter-09.htm (2742 words)

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