Word: sarel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week white-bearded Sarel Alberts invited white-bearded Dolf de la Rey to visit his farm. He had been thinking things over. Said Alberts to his lifelong friend and enemy: "I know the Nationalists well. They are unfit to rule the country. I want to join Torch and fight them...
Malan's headlong rush towards a narrow Afrikaner state-anti-British and anti-black-was too much for one of South Africa's oldest living heroes: 80-year-old General Sarel Francois Alberts. In the Boer War, Alberts fought alongside the late great Field Marshal Smuts against the hated British; after Smuts made peace (in 1902), they fought one another. Alberts, in 1914, rebelled against South Africa's pro-British government; he was defeated and captured by one of Smuts's toughest lieutenants: Dolf de la Rey. Since then, captor and captive have gone their separate...
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