Word: boers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Scotland 50 years ago, she came to South Africa with her father shortly before the Boer War. A burgher of the Orange Free State, her father rode in a commando against the British. When union came, Margaret, a homely girl with an intelligent face, began a schooling that carried her through South Africa's colleges and England's Oxford...
...years as Prime Minister, Laurier had ruled Canada and the Liberal Party. Under him Canada had grown to nationhood. Bourassa approved when Laurier compelled Britain to acknowledge Canada's autonomy. But when Laurier sent Canadian contingents to fight in the Boer War, Bourassa turned against...
...pale and weedy Cambridge student then: a Boer-accented colonial, fresh from the schools of the Cape Colony, a grave and talented adolescent with a passion for reciting Prometheus Unbound, an enthusiasm for the Empire-building of Cecil Rhodes. From Cambridge he went back to the South Africa of diamond fields and booming gold mines, of growing friction between British and Boers, who had trekked northward from the Cape to the Transvaal to free their rude, patriarchal, Bible-reading lives of uitlander (foreign) rule...
Years of Happiness. Looking back, Jan Smuts says that his Boer War days were his happiest. He came out of them 30 pounds heavier, transformed from a bookish lawyer into a hardened leader of men. On their tough Basuto ponies, he and his tough commando (guerrilla) column made a record march (700 miles in five weeks) across veld and mountain. They repeatedly outwitted Lord Kitchener's proud British Army, which Winston Churchill was covering as a young correspondent. When the rains came, they rode in water, slept in water; they endured cold, hunger, rags, sudden surprise, desperate flight. Through...
...imperialism came, with Louis Botha as the warm heart and Jan Smuts as the cool brain of the Union of South Africa. Jan Smuts recovered his admiration for the British: "They gave us back-in everything but name-our country. . . . They're a big people." But many a Boer, clinging to the memory of the pioneer Voortrekkers, whose ox wagons and rifles had beaten aside the yellow-brown Hottentots and the black Kaffirs, remained unreconstructed. They called Smuts Rhodes redivivus (Rhodes reborn), or Slim (sly, cunning) Jannie, and other more barbed names...