Jan Smuts comes of Cape Colony farming people; ... Smuts used his strategy of the Boer War, enveloping movements and long rapid marches that demanded almost more than men could give.

South African statesman Jan Smuts joined the anti-war protest movement on Thursday ... Smuts, a veteran of the Anglo-Boer War, was prime minister of South Africa during the World War 2.

GENERAL SMUTS (Vol. I)—Sarah Gertrude Mijlin—Little, Brown ($3.50). If Jan Christian Smuts’s career were graphed it would look like a broker’s nightmare. He has been a lawyer, a politician ...

World War 1 represents Smuts at the peak of his military abilities, but it is also the period when the seeds of his eventual demise and alienation were sown. ‘General Jan Smuts and his First ...

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) belonged to and were shaped by two different epochs in South Africa, yet left an indelible mark on its history.

I, Jan Christiaan Smuts, have but few days left on this earth. And when I die so too will die a link to much of our history. I am the last living member of Kruger’s government; the last senior general ...

Like a million other South Africans, the Stoltz family was up at cockcrow one morning last week, all ready to cast its votes in the first general election since 1948. Grandpa Stoltz, 75, stumped ...

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) belonged to and were shaped by two different epochs in South Africa, yet left an indelible mark on its history ...

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) belonged to and were shaped by two different epochs in South Africa, yet.