That's Louis Botha, @ThatRightWingFish - a traitor.

Oh

Kek

Did not know that

lol

every group has its traitors

How about Jan Smuts?

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@alexfletcha I think D.F. Malan said it best in parliament, and I paraphrase:

I support building a statue for Jan Smuts. We can build it next to that of Jan van Riebeeck. But, as Jan van Riebeeck's statue gazes towards the mountain, Smuts' statue must gaze towards the ocean...

He's got that bad a reputation. Wow.

I grew up in Durban. I can't remember hearing anything bad about him.

He was snug in the pocket of the British.

I remember my parents and their friends mentioning 1948 when Smuts lost the election - as in that was a bad thing. But then we were Brits so it makes sense.

He had Jopie Fourie, an Afrikaner rebel and freedom fighter executed to show his subservience to the crown.

Was that during WW1?

The 1914 Revolt, occurred because the men who supported the re-creation of the old Boer republics rose up against the government of the Union of South Africa as they did not want to side with the British against Germany. Many Boers had German ancestry and many members of the government were themselves former Boer military leaders who had fought with the rebels against the British in the Second Boer War. The rebellion was put down by Louis Botha and Jan Smuts, the ringleaders received fines and terms of imprisonment.

Yeah I've read about that, although I don't remember the names of the rebels.

Jopie Fourie's execution: An Afrikaner delegation that included future prime minister D.F. Malan unsuccessfully petitioned Minister of Defence, Gen. Smuts, to extend leniency. No mercy was given. Fourie was executed without a blindfold on 20 December 1914.

Brutal

Tfw you will never have a beard as majestic as a Boer warrior