South African Generals - Boer Generals, South African Air Force Generals, South African Army Generals, Jan Smuts, Koos de La Rey, Louis Botha (Paperback)


Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Boer generals, South African Air Force generals, South African Army generals, Jan Smuts, Koos de la Rey, Louis Botha, Jimmy Durrant, Leonard Beyers, Constand Viljoen, Piet Joubert, J. B. M. Hertzog, Ben Viljoen, Christiaan de Wet, Magnus Malan, Isaac Pierre de Villiers, Dan Pienaar, Pierre van Ryneveld, Schalk Willem Burger, Piet Cronje, Rudolph Hiemstra, Christian Frederick Beyers, Alexander Alfred Hayton, Christoffel Venter, Charles 'Pop' Fraser, Johannes Geldenhuys, Carlo Gagiano, Hendrik Klopper, Andreas Liebenberg, Kalfie Martin, Solly Shoke, Robert 'Bob' Rogers, Willem Louw, Petrus Jacobs, Barend Viljoen, Jacobus Verster, Jan Kemp, Nicolas Smit. Excerpt: Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS, PC (24 May 1870 - 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. He served in the First World War and as a British field marshal in the Second World War. Since earlier in his life and for most of his political life, Smuts believed in racial separation. Much later on in his life, Smuts went on to lead his government to issue the Fagan Report, which stated that complete racial segregation in South Africa was not practical and that restrictions on African migration into urban areas should be abolished. In this, the government was opposed by a majority of Afrikaners under the political leadership of the National Party who wished to deepen segregation and formalise it into a system of apartheid. This opposition contributed to his narrow loss in the 1948 general election. He was notable as one of the few South African politicians of the time who believed that blacks had the potential to be equals to the whi...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Boer generals, South African Air Force generals, South African Army generals, Jan Smuts, Koos de la Rey, Louis Botha, Jimmy Durrant, Leonard Beyers, Constand Viljoen, Piet Joubert, J. B. M. Hertzog, Ben Viljoen, Christiaan de Wet, Magnus Malan, Isaac Pierre de Villiers, Dan Pienaar, Pierre van Ryneveld, Schalk Willem Burger, Piet Cronje, Rudolph Hiemstra, Christian Frederick Beyers, Alexander Alfred Hayton, Christoffel Venter, Charles 'Pop' Fraser, Johannes Geldenhuys, Carlo Gagiano, Hendrik Klopper, Andreas Liebenberg, Kalfie Martin, Solly Shoke, Robert 'Bob' Rogers, Willem Louw, Petrus Jacobs, Barend Viljoen, Jacobus Verster, Jan Kemp, Nicolas Smit. Excerpt: Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS, PC (24 May 1870 - 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. He served in the First World War and as a British field marshal in the Second World War. Since earlier in his life and for most of his political life, Smuts believed in racial separation. Much later on in his life, Smuts went on to lead his government to issue the Fagan Report, which stated that complete racial segregation in South Africa was not practical and that restrictions on African migration into urban areas should be abolished. In this, the government was opposed by a majority of Afrikaners under the political leadership of the National Party who wished to deepen segregation and formalise it into a system of apartheid. This opposition contributed to his narrow loss in the 1948 general election. He was notable as one of the few South African politicians of the time who believed that blacks had the potential to be equals to the whi...

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August 2011

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30

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978-1-157-97469-7

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9781157974697

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1-157-97469-4



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