Word: botha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kruger led his handful of men against thousands of British regulars for six months, then made a desperate trip to Europe in search of aid. He died in Switzerland in 1904, and it was left to mere youths such as Smuts, Botha and Hertzog to build and shape today's Anglo-Boer Dominion of South Africa...
...time, the new 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...
...World War I the diehards saw a new chance for freedom. Prime Minister Botha and Defense Minister Smuts put down a rebellion of their old comrades-at-arms. Then in 1915, in a smartly led campaign, they captured German South West Africa for the Empire. In 1916 Jan Smuts commanded imperial troops which eventually seized control of German East Africa...
Afrikaners Gideon Blignaut, 24 and Antonie Botha, 22, were at work in Johannesburg's Pass Office. When Robert Chanke, an elderly Negro from upcountry Transvaal, shuffled into their room seeking a work permit, the white clerks tried to make him admit illegal entry from Rhodesia. Chanke insisted that he lived in a Transvaal kraal, had a right to work in Johannesburg...
Blignaut and Botha ushered Chanke into another room, slipped a noose around his neck, threw the rope end over a beam. Then they ordered the sweating native to stand on a chair and jump. Chanke collapsed, unconscious. The noise brought other clerks, arrest for the sportsmen. Sentence: $100 fines for Blignaut and Botha. Newpapers suggested that the Government should remove such Afrikaners from authority over the Bantu...