Paul Kruger House Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
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Paul Kruger house was the residence of President Paul Kruger from 1884 until 1900. Apart from the house which was restored to as close as original condition, there is an impressive display of personal effects of paul kruger. As well as two display halls, President Kruger’s State Railway Coach, and a small cannon.
Paul kruger house is situated in 60 Church Street, Pretoria, South Africa
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Paul Kruger Museum Pretoria South Africa - Visit Africa Travel Channel
Kruger House Museum is a frequently visited heritage site comprising the original Kruger House, built in 1883, two exhibition halls, namely the Zuid-Afrikaanse Republiek Hall and Exile Hall, and President Kruger's railway coach.
Kruger Huis in Pretoria
President Paul Kruger en sy gesin het ‘n gerieflike, maar eenvoudige lewenstyl gehandhaaf. Esté Gross besoek die Paul Kruger Huis in Pretoria en vind meer uit oor die geskenke en aandenkings wat die president namens die Republiek tydens die Anglo-Boere oorlog ontvang het. Sy vind ook uit of die Krugerponde nie iewers wag om ontdek te word nie...
1878 Paul Kruger
In time, Kruger emerged as a leader. He started as a field cornet in the commandos, eventually becoming Commandant-General of the South African Republic. He was appointed member of a commission of the Volksraad, the republican parliament that was to draw up a constitution. People began to take notice of the young man and he played a prominent part in ending the quarrel between the Transvaal leader, Stephanus Schoeman, and M.W. Pretorius.
In 1873, Kruger resigned as Commandant-General, and for a time he held no office and retired to his farm, Boekenhoutfontein. However, in 1874 he was elected to the Executive Council and shortly after that became Vice-President of the Transvaal.
Following the annexation of the Transvaal by Britain in 1877, Kruger became the leader of the resistance movement. During the same year, he visited Britain for the first time as leader of a deputation. In 1878, he was part of a second deputation. A highlight of his visit to Europe was when he ascended in a hot air balloon and saw Paris from the air.
The First Boer War, also known as the First War of Independence, started in 1880, and the British forces were defeated in the decisive battle at Majuba in 1881. Once again, Kruger played an important role in the negotiations with the British, which led to the restoration of the Transvaal's independence under British suzerainty.
On 30 December 1880, at the age of 55, Kruger was elected President of the Transvaal. One of his first aims was the revision of the Pretoria Convention of 1881, the agreement between the Boers and the British that ended the First Boer War. Therefore, he again left for Britain in 1883, empowered to negotiate with Lord Derby. Kruger and his companions also visited the Continent and this visit became a triumph in countries such as Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Spain. In Germany, he attended an imperial banquet at which he was presented to the Emperor, Wilhelm I, and spoke at length with Bismarck.
In the Transvaal, things changed rapidly after the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand. This momentous discovery was to have far-reaching political repercussions and to give rise to the uitlander, or foreigner, problem, which was eventually to cause the fall of the Republic. Kruger acknowledged in his memiors that General Joubert predicted the events that were to follow afterwards, declaring that instead of rejoicing for the discovery of gold, they should be weeping because it will cause our land to be soaked in blood.
At the end of 1895, the failed Jameson raid took place; Jameson was forced to surrender, taken to Pretoria and handed over to his British countrymen for punishment.
Kruger believed that the Earth is flat; in 1897 he said to a sailor sailing round the world You don't mean round the world, it is impossible! You mean in the world. Impossible![1].
In 1898, Kruger was elected President for the fourth and last time.
On 11 October 1899, the Second Boer War broke out. On 7 May the following year, Kruger attended the last session of the Volksraad, and left Pretoria on 29 May as Lord Roberts was advancing on the town. For weeks he either stayed in a house at Waterval Onder or in his railway carriage at Machadodorp in the then Eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga. In October, he left South Africa on the Dutch warship De Gelderland, sent by the Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina, which had simply ignored the British naval blockade of South Africa. His wife was too ill to travel and remained in South Africa; she died on 20 July 1901.
Kruger went to Marseille and stayed for a while in The Netherlands, before moving to Clarens, Switzerland, where he died on 14 July 1904. He was buried on 16 December 1904 in the Church Street cemetery, Pretoria.
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South Africa-The Kruger house and Museum Pretoria
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger was elected President of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek(ZAR) at his age of 57. The museum consists of the original house which man Kruger moved here with his family during the last sixteen year of the 19th century.
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1878 Paul Kruger
In time, Kruger emerged as a leader. He started as a field cornet in the commandos, eventually becoming Commandant-General of the South African Republic.
Africa in the 1920's: Pretoria, South Africa, Historic Buildings and Mine
This black and white 16 mm video was taken by American tourists visiting South Africa in the late 1920's. Here they visit several famous sites in Pretoria, including Oom Paul Kruger's Church and Home--Oom Paul (Uncle Paul) served as South Africa's President from 1883-1900. Next they visit the massive Union Buildings and gardens--seat of the government and home of the South African President. At the end of this segment they visit a working mine--likely a diamond mine.
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Stephanus Johannes Paulus Paul Kruger was one of the dominant political and military figures in 19th-century South Africa, and President of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1900.Nicknamed Oom Paul , he came to international prominence as the face of the Boer cause—that of the Transvaal and its neighbour the Orange Free State—against Britain during the Second Boer War of 1899–1902.He has been called a personification of Afrikanerdom, and remains a controversial and divisive figure; admirers venerate him as a tragic folk hero, while critics view him as the obstinate guardian of an unjust cause.Born in the eastern Cape Colony, Kruger took part in the Great Trek as a child during the late 1830s.
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Anger over defacing of Paul Kruger stature
Pretorians say how they feel about the defacing of the Paul Kruger stature on Church Square in the city centre.Click here to read more: rekordeast.co.za
Aankomst van Paul Kruger te Amsterdam
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Mamelodi, part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, is a township set up by the then apartheid government northeast of Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.It was established when 16 houses were built on the farm Vlakfontein in June 1953 and later the name changed to Mamelodi, the name given to president Paul Kruger by the Africans because of his ability to whistle and imitate birds, also meaning Mother of Melodies.The Group Areas Act designated Mamelodi as a blacks-only area, though this became moot with the fall of apartheid in 1994.In the 1960s black citizens where forcefully removed from the suburb of Lady Selbourne in Pretoria to Mamelodi, Ga-Rankuwa and Atteridgeville.
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Bezoek van President Kruger te Rotterdam
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Een enthousiaste menigte trekt over het Vredenoordplein te Rotterdam om Paul Kruger hulde te brengen. 26 Juni 1901.