Hopetown Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the...

The Commando System was a mostly voluntary, part-time force of the South African Army, but in their role as local militia the units were often deployed...

Beaufort Commando Part of Natal Command in late 1970s. Originally named Empangeni/Richards Bay Commando. The unit was renamed Insele Commando on March 2...

south and cutting the railway and British lifeline between De Aar and Hopetown. On 15 February 1900, they occupied Prieska and environs in the Karoo,...

for tourists. Bob Hope later bought the ranch in 1966 and renamed it "Hopetown". It is now a Regional Park and nature preserve. Corrigan's Hollywood career...

- Paarl, 1895) and Francina Johanna Roux (from the Danish Wiid family, Hopetown, 1841 - Paarl, 1921). He studied at Stellenbosch Theological Institute...

continued through the Upper Karoo, to De Aar, and crossed the Orange River at Hopetown, where South Africa's first diamond, the Eureka Diamond, was found. The...

and Mafeking and destroyed the railway bridge across the Orange River at Hopetown. Substantial British reinforcements (an army corps under General Redvers...

for two years, driving farmers to seek their livelihoods in the Prieska, Hopetown, Richmond, Britstown, and Murraysburg, even to the Sneeuberge and Middelburg...