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Andries Hendrik Potgieter
Boer leader
Andries Pretorius, portrait (artist unknown).
Andries Pretorius
Boer South African leader
Piet Retief
Piet Retief
Boer leader
Salomon Gerhardus Maritz
South African general
Isaac Schapera
South African anthropologist