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Making the past for South Africa's future: the prehistory of Field-Marshal Smuts (1920s-1940s).
; ...undermined with the case of Field-Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950), (1) for half a century...and the United Nations (FIGURE 1). Smuts' own interests and abilities, coupled...many politicians before and since, Smuts did indulge in conventional acts of...I start my political campaign ...
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Anniversaries
; ...mercury thermometer, 1686; Jean-Paul Marat, politician and physician, 1743; Victoria, Queen and Empress, 1819; Jan Christiaan Smuts, soldier and statesman, 1870; George Formby (William Hoy Booth), singer and comedian, 1904. Deaths: Nicolaus Copernicus...
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The peace of Vereeniging: May 31st 1902. (Months Past).(Second Boer War)(Brief Article)
; ...Boer guerrilla commanders Christiaan de Wet, Koos de la Rey and Jan Smuts harried British bases and...Afrikaners. Burger, Botha and Smuts urged peace. Burger maintained...Botha, de Wet, de la Rey, Smuts and Hertzog -- was sent to...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1948: Uncertain Future
; ...Malan, and his doubly-defeated rival, Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts. Dr. Malan, whose slender majority of five might make...continued discussions on selection of a Cabinet. General Smuts conferred with leaders of his United party. Strong efforts...
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S. African Newspaper Reports Plot To Kill Mandela After U.S. Visit; Police Arrest 11 White Extremists, Release Them Within Hours
; ...the liberal Afrikaans-language weekly Vrye Weekbald, Jan Johannes Smith Jr. said he was recruited by the extreme...Movement, to shoot Mandela with a special rifle from atop Jan Christiaan Smuts Airport. Smith's affidavit alleged that the group also...
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Bush, de Klerk break ice // Easing of S. Africa curbs hinted
; ...back," de Klerk assured Bush as he arrived at the White House. The last South African head of state to visit was Jan Christiaan Smuts, who as prime minister attended a December, 1946, dinner given by President Harry S Truman and spent a night at...
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Cape name changes.(News)
; ...Sisulu Avenue, Hendrik Verwoerd Drive becomes Beyers Naude Drive, Jan Smuts Drive becomes Dullah Omar Drive and Hans Strijdom becomes Albert...agree or reject a proposal to rename Oswald Pirow Street to Christiaan Barnard Drive. - Staff Reporter
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Kitchener called into question.(Letter)
; ...scorched earth policy and concentration camps. Kitchener carried out orders. In the biography of the great General Jan Christiaan Smuts (written by his son) there occurs the following: 'Kitchener, a kindly, understanding man, as a soldier appreciated...
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Spelling shame
; ...Cremeieux became Karmiah and the South African Johann Smuts became Smats. It is difficult enough to convince the...horrendous. One wonders, however, what the spirit of the late Jan Christiaan Smats, er... Smatus... or was that Shmattes? would think...
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Amazing Grace; From low-end bordello to high-class hotel.(Travel)
; ...African prime minister, Jan Smuts (1919 - 1924 and 1939...in Selections from The Smuts Papers Vol June 1886...betrayed by her husband Christiaan and stabbed to death...her grave in 1983 when Christiaan van de Linde himself...
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