Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, was a South African statesman, military officer and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union
Smuts in 1934
Jacobus and Catharina Smuts, 1893
Jan Smuts, as a young state attorney general in 1895
Jan Smuts and Boer guerrillas during the Second Boer War, c. 1901
Daniël François Malan was a South African politician who served as the fourth prime minister of South Africa from 1948 to 1954. The National Party implemented the system of apartheid, which enforced r
Jan Smuts
…repercussions in South Africa. Smuts's support of the war and his support for the Fagan Commission made him unpopular amongst the Afrikaner community and Daniel François Malan's pro-apartheid stance won the Reunited National Party the 1948 general election. In 1948, he was elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge…