Word: botha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Munnik Hertzog who, in June of last year, succeeded General Smuts as Prime Minister of the Dominion. Hertzog fought without distinction as a Boer General against the British in the South African War (1899-1902), but in negotiating the Peace of Vereeniging, he rose to equal prominence with Generals Botha and Smuts, his brother officers. For a decade, he worked with these...
...Botha and Smuts dropped General Hertzog in 1912. He became once more a Republican, stood passively aside in 1914 when a rebellion against the Government's decision to participate in the Great War profoundly disturbed the country. After the War, in 1918, he came boldly to the front, advocated secession from the Commonwealth in his famous two-stream policy...
Premier Hertzog went into office with his segregation policy?a term which was well understood. The policy is generally called General Hertzog's, but differs little from that of the late Premier Botha and ex-Premier Smuts. In essence, it divides the country into large tracts, some for the whites, some for the Negroes. Each in his own territorial sphere is to be allowed independently to work out his own salvation; but the matter of employing whites or Negroes in either of the several tracts is to be self-determined. When segregation becomes a fait accompli, the native (the Cape...
General Hertzog, like General Smuts and the late General Botha, fought against Britain in the Boer War. Unlike them, however, he has not become entirely reconciled to British rule and was gravely criticized for his part in the rebellion of 1914. He is known for his "segregation-of-the-natives policy" (disenfranchisement of the natives)** and his "two stream policy"* (secession...
...known that they would be able to accept only a fraction of the numerous invitations they had received. The Daily Mail, Rothermere daily, applauded their decision, recalling "the Imperial Conference of 1907, when the late Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then Canadian Premier; the late Premier Louis Botha of South Africa; and the late Dr. Leander Starr Jameson of Cape Colony were simultaneously ill from over-banqueting...