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Mayor Of Tshwane
The Mayor of Tshwane is the head of the local government of Pretoria, South Africa; currently that government takes the form of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (also known as the City of Tshwane) () is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng Province, South Africa. The Metropolitan area is centred on the city of Pr .... In the past, the position of Mayor has varied between that of an executive mayor actively governing the city and that of a figurehead mayor with a mostly ceremonial role. On 30 October 2020, Randall Williams of the Democratic Alliance was elected mayor. List of mayors of Tshwane Historic office Transvaal Republic - District of Pretoria (1857-1900) British Transvaal Colony - Pretoria (1902 - 1910) Union of South Africa - Pretoria (1910 - 1931) Union of South Africa - City of Pretoria (1931-1961) (''Pretoria is declared a city on 14 October 1931' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randall Williams (politician)
Randall Williams is a South African politician and attorney serving as the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality since October 2020. Previously, he served as the Mayoral Committee Member (MMC) for Economic Development and Spatial Planning and as the Chairperson of Municipal Appeals Tribunal between 2016 and 2019. Williams is a member of the Democratic Alliance. Early life and career Williams was born on the Cape Flats in Cape Town. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from UNISA and a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in International Investment and Trade Law from Stellenbosch University. Williams worked as the chief director of International Trade and Economic Development at the Department of Trade and Industry before he was elected to the City of Tshwane council. Political career After the 3 August 2016 municipal elections, the Democratic Alliance gained control of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. On 26 August 2016, the newly elected DA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Skinner (politician)
William Skinner may refer to: *William Skinner (MP) (1596–1627), MP for Great Grimsby, 1626 *William Skinner (British Army officer) (1700–1780), British military engineer *William Skinner (North Carolina general) (1728–1798), general in the North Carolina militia during the American Revolution *William Skinner (bishop) (1778–1857), bishop of Aberdeen in the Scottish Episcopal Church *William Skinner (ethnographer) (1857–1946), New Zealand surveyor, historian, and ethnographer * William I. Skinner (1812–1891), American politician from New York *G. William Skinner (1925–2008), American anthropologist and scholar of China * William W. Skinner (1874–1953), American chemist, conservationist, and college football coach *William C. Skinner (1855–1922), president of Colt's Manufacturing Company *William Henry Skinner (1838–1915), Welsh architect who migrated to New Zealand *William Skinner of Corra William Skinner of Corra WS FRSE DL JP (1823–1901) was a 19th- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Bourke
Edmund Francis Bourke ( ga, Éamonn Proinséas De Búrca; 27 January 1852 – 30 August 1926) was an Irish-South African politician and businessman who served as a member of the Transvaal Legislative Council and the first mayor of Pretoria. Biography Eddie Bourke was born in Maritzburg, in the British Colony of Natal. He was the eldest son of John Bourke and Hannah Stadler. John Bourke was an Irish pioneer of the Colony of Natal originally from Castlegar in Ireland. Bourke attended Maritzburg College. After learning accounting from Messrs. A. Fass & Co. Bourke left Natal for the Transvaal in 1877 and accepted the management of Mr. Henry Russell's business (one of the oldest in Pretoria), in January of that year. In 1878, Bourke was recalled to Natal to take temporary charge of Messrs. A. Fass and Co's business in Durban. He returned finally to the Transvaal early in 1879. Shortly after his return, the well—known general merchant firm of Bourke & Co. was established. Bourke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was a British Victorian era general who became one of the most successful British military commanders of his time. Born in India to an Anglo-Irish family, Roberts joined the East India Company Army and served as a young officer in the Indian Rebellion during which he was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry. He was then transferred to the British Army and fought in the Expedition to Abyssinia and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in which his exploits earned him widespread fame. Roberts would go on to serve as the Commander-in-Chief, India before leading British Forces for a year during the Second Boer War. He also became the last Commander-in-Chief of the Forces before the post was abolished in 1904. A man of small stature, Roberts was affectionately known to his troops and the wider British public as "Bobs" and revered as one of Britain's leading military figures at a time whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kelsky Loveday
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Bourke 1891
Eddie or Eddy may refer to: Science and technology *Eddy (fluid dynamics), the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid flows past an obstacle *Eddie (text editor), a text editor originally for BeOS and now ported to Linux and Mac OS X Arts and entertainment * ''Eddie'' (film), a 1996 film about basketball starring Whoopi Goldberg ** ''Eddie'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film * ''Eddy'' (film), a 2015 Italian film * "Eddie" (Louie), a 2011 episode of the show ''Louie'' *Eddie (shipboard computer), in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' *Eddy (Ed, Edd n Eddy), a character on ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' *Eddie (mascot), the mascot for the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden *Eddie, an American Cinema Editors award for best editing *Eddie (book series), a book series by Viveca Lärn *Half of the musical duo Flo & Eddie *"Eddie", a song from the ''Rocky Horror Picture Show'' * "Eddie" (song), a 2022 song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers Places United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter J
Pieter is a male given name, the Dutch form of Peter. The name has been one of the most common names in the Netherlands for centuries, but since the mid-twentieth century its popularity has dropped steadily, from almost 3000 per year in 1947 to about 100 a year in 2016. at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands Some of the better known people with this name are below. See for a longer list. * (?-1332), Flemish revolutionary * (c. 1480–1572), Flemish Franciscan missionary in Mexico known as "Pedro de Gante" * |
Carel Frederik Ziervogel
Carel is a given name, and may refer to: Arts * Carel Blotkamp, Dutch artist and art historian * Carel de Moor, Dutch etcher and painter * Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter and one of Rembrandt's most gifted pupils * Carel van Mander, Flemish painter, poet and biographer * Carel Vosmaer, Dutch poet and art-critic * Jacques-Philippe Carel Jacques-Philippe Carel () was a Parisian cabinet-maker (''ébéniste''), who was admitted to the cabinetmakers' guild in 1723 and specialized in rococo case pieces of high quality veneered in end-grain (''bois de bout'') floral marquetry. Two almo ... (), Parisian cabinet-maker Education * Carel Gabriel Cobet, Dutch classical scholar * Carel van Schaik, Dutch professor and director of the Anthropological Institute and Museum at the University of Zürich, Switzerland Other fields * Carel Godin de Beaufort, Dutch nobleman and Formula One driver * Carel Victor Gerritsen (1850–1905), Dutch radical politician * Carel Jan Scheneider, Dutch fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan De Villiers
Johan Zulch de Villiers (12 July 1845 – 18 July 1910) was a South African politician and attorney. He was mayor of Johannesburg from 1897 to 1900. Life Johan Zulch de Villiers was born in 1845 in Paarl, Cape Colony. He was educated at the Paarl gymnasium as well as privately by Dr. Rose Innes at Cape Town. For fifteen months he joined the Orange Free State forces in the Basuto Gun War. He passed as an attorney and was an advocate of the High Court. He then entered civil service becoming the private secretary to President Johannes Brand. Between 1881 and 1897 de Villiers was the landdrost of several towns including Pretoria, Barberton and Lydenburg. He also worked in Swaziland. The government appointed him as the first mayor ( nl, burgemeester) of Johannesburg on 1 October 1897. The first meeting of the town council was held on 4 October 1897. He was the mayor until Johannesburg's surrender to Frederick Roberts on 31 May 1900 during the Second Boer War. The British then a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Boer War
The First Boer War ( af, Eerste Vryheidsoorlog, literally "First Freedom War"), 1880–1881, also known as the First Anglo–Boer War, the Transvaal War or the Transvaal Rebellion, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881 between the United Kingdom and Boers of the Transvaal (as the South African Republic was known while under British administration). The war resulted in a Boer victory and eventual independence of the South African Republic. Background In the 19th century a series of events occurred in the southern part of the African continent, with the British from time to time attempting to set up a single unified state there, while at other times wanting to control less territory. Three prime factors fuelled British expansion into Southern Africa: * the desire to control the trade routes to India that passed around the Cape of Good Hope * the discovery in 1868 of huge mineral deposits of diamonds around Kimberley on the joint borders of the South African R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Carel Preller
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Johan * Johan (given name) * ''Johan'' (film), a 1921 Swedish film directed by Mauritz Stiller * Johan (band), a Dutch pop-group ** ''Johan'' (album), a 1996 album by the group * Johan Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada * Jo-Han, a manufacturer of plastic scale model kits See also * John (name) John (; ') is a common male given name in the English language of Hebrew origin. The name is the English form of ''Iohannes'' and ''Ioannes'', which are the Latin forms of the Greek name Ioannis (Ιωάννης), originally borne by Hellenized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
