Sir James Molteno, was an influential barrister and parliamentarian of South Africa.
Molteno as Parliamentary Speaker.
James Molteno as a young MP in the 1890s.
Capture of Leander Starr Jameson by the Boers, after his failed 1896 raid. The raid turned out to have been secretly engineered by Cecil Rhodes – a fact known by Molteno from the beginning.
Anglo-Boer War prisoner transit camp on Green point common, Cape Town.
The South African Party was a political party in the Cape Colony.
James Tennant Molteno
…X. Merriman, making hundreds of speeches across the country. The effort paid off and the election was a resounding victory for Merriman and Molteno's "South African Party". Molteno was a strong proponent of women's suffrage and, on 4 July 1907, together with fellow MPs J.W. Sauer and Dr Antonie Viljoen, made the first…
William Schreiner (centre, seated) with South African Party leaders, and activists, including John Tengo Jabavu, Walter Rubusana and Abdurahman in the delegation which lobbied the London Convention on Union for the multi-racial franchise.