He was proud of his accomplishments, proud of his job, proud that Donald Kruger and his associates trusted him.

In 1926, the government of South Africa designated Kruger National Park as the nation's first national park, although it was an expansion of the earlier Sabie Game Reserve established in 1898 by President Paul Kruger of the old South African Republic, after whom the park was named.

In 1867 Schoemansdal and a considerable portion of the district were abandoned on the advice of Commandant-general Paul Kruger, and Schoemansdal finally was burnt to ashes by a party of natives.

Kruger was re-elected president in 1888 and 1893, each time defeating Piet Joubert.

An armistice followed, ending the war, and subsequently a peace treaty was signed with the Transvaal President Paul Kruger.

Not only was this tax perceived as exorbitant, but British interests were offended when President Paul Kruger gave monopoly rights for the manufacture of the explosive to a non-British branch of the Nobel company, which infuriated the British.

A few days after the raid, the German Kaiser sent a telegram (" Kruger telegram ") congratulating President Kruger and the government of the South African Republic on their success, and when the text of this telegram was disclosed in the British press, it generated a storm of anti-German feeling.

Kruger, seeing that war was inevitable, simultaneously issued his own ultimatum prior to receiving Chamberlain's.

4, 500 Boers surrendered and much equipment was captured but as with Roberts's drive against Kruger at the same time, these losses were of relatively little consequence, as the hardcore of the Boer armies and their most determined and active leaders remained at large.

There was much sympathy for the Boers on mainland Europe and in October, President Kruger and members of the Transvaal government left Portuguese East Africa on the Dutch warship De Gelderland, sent by the Queen of the Netherlands Wilhelmina, who had simply ignored the British naval blockade of South Africa.

Although strangely marked skins had come from Africa, a live king cheetah was not photographed until 1974 in South Africa's Kruger National Park.

The first section of the “ Peace Park ” initiative which links with Kruger Park in South Africa, and Gonarezhou in Zimbabwe, was project aimed at the development of tourism.

* Helen was portrayed by Diane Kruger in the 2004 film Troy.

Dirk Postma came from Zwolle to the South African Republic in 1858, and was accepted as a minister of the Hervormde Kerk, but on learning that he and his congregation could be required to sing hymns ( rather than the Psalms only ), he and the Doppers, numbering about 300 adults, among whom was the later President Paul Kruger, broke away from the state church to form the Gereformeerde Kerk in Rustenburg in February 1859.

It was within this denomination that Paul Kruger arose.

Chamberlain surprised Hatzfeldt by assuring him that Britain and Germany had common interests, that the rupture over the Jameson Raid and the Kruger Telegram was an abnormality and that a defensive alliance should be formulated between the two countries, with specific regards to China.

The affair brought Anglo-Boer relations to a dangerous low and the ill feeling was further heated by the " Kruger telegram " from the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger ( 10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904 ), better known as Paul Kruger and affectionately known as Uncle Paul ( Afrikaans: " Oom Paul ") was State President of the South African Republic ( Transvaal ).

On 30 December 1880, at the age of 55, Kruger was elected President of the Transvaal.

The Transvaal Boers led by Paul Kruger ( the future Transvaal President ) thereafter elected to deal first with the perceived Zulu threat to the status quo, and local issues, before directly opposing the British annexation.

* 16 April-Paul Kruger is elected president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek

* Paul Kruger, president of the Transvaal Republic

The Krugerrand is so named because the obverse, designed by Otto Schultz, bears the face of Boer statesman Paul Kruger, four-term president of the old South African Republic.

* December 30 – The Transvaal becomes a republic and Paul Kruger becomes its first president.

Voortrekker ' Uncle ' Paul Kruger, first president of the South African Republic upon its reacquired independence after the brief British annexation, adopted the Calvinstic principles in its political form, and formulated the Boer cultural mandate based on the Afrikaner Calvinist conviction that the South Africans had a special calling from God, not unlike the people of Israel in the Bible.

Reitz had no sooner got into office than a meeting was arranged with Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic, at which various terms were discussed and decided upon regarding an agreement dealing with the railways, terms of a treaty of amity and commerce, and what was called a political treaty.

That motion, introduced together with another Volksraad member by the name of R. K. Loveday, and accepted for discussion in September 1895 by a majority of one vote, resulted in the proclamation by Paul Kruger president of the Transvaal Republic, on 26 March 1898, of a " Government Wildlife Park.

On 27 February 1884 Robinson signed the London Convention for the British government, with Paul Kruger, the new state president of the South African Republic, S. J.

Its most prominent feature is the statue of the Boer leader and president of the South African Republic Paul Kruger at its centre.

Paul Kruger, four times president of South African Republic ( 1825 – 1904 )

Nellmapius often entertained at the Irene Estate in a grand style ; a frequent guest was Transvaal president, Paul Kruger.

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 Kruger telegram was a message sent by Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II to Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, president of the Transvaal Republic, on 3 January 1896.

One of the oldest Boer settlements in the north, Rustenburg was the home of Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic, who bought a 5 square kilometer farm to the north-west of the town in 1863.

Although these land purchases were technically illegal, Paul Kruger, who would become a president of the Transvaal Boer Republic, but was then a veld kornet, was friendly to the Bafokeng and helped arrange many of these purchases.

* 14 July-Exiled president of the South African Republic Paul Kruger dies in Clarens, Switzerland at the age of 78

* 9 May-Paul Kruger is sworn in as president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek

* the Dutch / Afrikaans word for " uncle ", often applied to Paul Kruger, former president of the Transvaal Republic

It has also been briefly applied to the presidency of the South African Republic from 1881 to 1883, when it was jointly governed by M. W. Pretorius, Paul Kruger and P. J. Joubert.

Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, commonly known as Paul Kruger was the President of the South African Republic from 1883 to 1902.

It congratulated Paul Kruger on defeating the " raiders ", and also appeared to recognize the Boer republic and offer support.

The leadership of the South African republic included Paul Kruger.

This influx of foreigners, referred to as " Uitlanders ", threatened their republic, and Transvaal's President Kruger refused to give the " Uitlanders " the right to vote.

Loch, however, with the approval of the imperial government, concluded in July – August 1890 a convention with President Kruger respecting Swaziland, by which, while the Boers withdrew all claims to territory north of the Transvaal, they were granted an outlet to the sea at Kosi Bay on condition that the republic entered the South African Customs Union.