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Reinet, which is controlled by South African billionaire Johann Rupert, said on Tuesday approval was received from Lehman Brothers merchant banking partners IV LP and IV.
The Economic Times 2009
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Reserve near Graaff-Reinet which is battling to cope with soaring poaching, vandalism and theft.
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Note 16: For example, the Swellendam district was divided in 1785 with the creation of a new district at Graaff-Reinet, nearly six hundred kilometers east of Cape Town.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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His daughter Aletta Sophia and her husband Alewijn Jacobus Burger had moved to Graaff-Reinet, a distance that precluded their return for the auction.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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In 1785 the creation of the Graaff-Reinet district extended the eastern colonial boundary to the Great Fish River. 15
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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For Susan Newton-King, the frontier era in Graaff-Reinet ended with the quelling of a two-pronged rebellion against VOC authority from 1799 to 1801.9 In Nigel Penn's view, the northern frontier closed a decade later, marked by the formal subjugation of Khoisan labor with the Caledon Code and the careful administrative scrutiny recorded in the Collins Report, both in 1809.10
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Consequently, the settler frontier economy was based on stock farming, in contrast to the lucrative wine and wheat farms of the better-watered regions. 16 Poorer and more sparsely populated, the northern frontier attracted less Anglophone scholarly attention than Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Samuel Stern first opened a small shop in the Graaff-Reinet district of the Cape Colony but later became a successful farmer in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal where Irma was born in 1894.
Irma Stern. 2009
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The Graaff-Reinet distillery brands its products "Agava".
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Reinet arrived in the top 25 thanks to some fortuitous coinvestments and its backing of Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking, the midmarket buyout arm of the former U.S. investment bank, while Bregal has become an experienced coinvestor and cornerstone investor, such as in buyout manager Englefield Capital LLC.
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