Louis Botha
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Louis Botha was a South African politician who was the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, the forerunner of the modern South African state. A Boer war veteran during the Second Boer Wa
Botha during the Boer War
A Punch cartoon expressing surprise at Botha's appointment as Premier of the Transvaal Colony. The cartoon states: "SHADE OF PAUL KRUGER. "What! Botha Premier? Well, these English do 'stagger Humanity'!" In 1907 South Africa was, in effect, given back to the Dutch.", 6 March 1907.
Statue near The Houses of Parliament, Cape Town by Romano Romanelli
Second Boer War
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The Second Boer War was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the Boer republics over Britain's influence in Southern Africa.
Louis Botha
…politician who was the first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, the forerunner of the modern South African state. A Boer war veteran during the Second Boer War, Botha eventually fought to have South Africa become a British Dominion. Louis Botha led "Dinuzulu's Volunteers", a group of Boers that had supported…
A typical British soldier. Corporal Alexander Turnbull of Kitchener's Fighting Scouts
Boer victory over the British at the Battle of Majuba Hill, First Boer War, 1881
A sketch showing the arrest of Leander Starr Jameson after the failed Jameson raid, in 1896
Paul Kruger, leader of the South African Republic (Transvaal)