Research topic: Jan Christiaan Smuts

Jan Christiaan Smuts , 1870-1950, South African statesman and soldier, b. Cape Colony. Of Boer (Afrikaner) stock but a British subject by birth, he was educated at Victoria College (at Stellenbosch) and at Cambridge Univ., where he won highest honors in law. In 1895 he was admitted to the Cape Colony bar. When the Jameson Raid (see Jameson, Sir Leander Starr ) convinced him that Great Britain intended to conquer the South African Republic, he renounced his British citizenship and moved to the republic, where he became (1898) state attorney. In the South African War , Smuts commanded... Read more