Jan Smuts comes of Cape Colony farming people; ... By 1913 it was evident that the reaction was setting in. General Hertzog broke with the Botha Cabinet on the question of imperial defense, ...

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 ...

It's got to the point when that tiresome word empire has been so overused that it's enough to see it in a title for one's teeth to be set on edge. For it's generally so nefariously used, nearly ...

Michael Cardo writes that in the push for the Jan Smuts Hall at UCT to be renamed, it would be a shame if the racial chauvinism of the past were to be resculpted and acclaimed as the politics of ...

Jan Smuts was the only delegate present who had also been present at Versailles in 1919. He again played a highly influential ...

A memorial service was held on Sunday for General Jan Christiaan Smuts at his Doringkloof home, in Irene, and was marked by a wreath-laying ceremony. The Welsh Male Voice Choir of SA sang ...

Balfour Declaration Not Merely a War Measure General Jan Smuts Says. November 14, 1927. ... when much else in the history of the Great War will have become but a dim memory,” General Smuts, ...

For more information, contact the General Smuts Foundation on 012-667-1176 or fax 012-667-1213. - This article was originally published on page 16 of The Star on July 16, 2005 Related Topics: ...