John Charles Molteno
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Sir John Charles Molteno was a politician and businessman who served as the first Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1872 to 1878.
John Charles Molteno – 1860s
The Cape Colony in 1878, on the eve of the Confederation Wars.
James Tennant Molteno
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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.