Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, OM, CH, DTD, ED, PC, KC, FRS (baptismal name Jan Christiaan Smuts, 24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a South African...
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Jan Smuts Avenue is a major street in Johannesburg, South Africa. It begins in Randburg, and passes through important business areas like Rosebank. It...
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O. R. Tambo International Airport (redirect from Jan Smuts International Airport)
Oliver Tambo. The airport was founded in 1952 as Jan Smuts International Airport, two years after Smuts's death. Situated near the town of Kempton Park on...
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Hertzoggie (redirect from Jan Smuts cookies)
contemporary Jan Smuts to bake a version of their own called "Jan Smuts cookies". This confection also became popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Jan Smuts cookies...
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Sybella "Isie" Margaretha Smuts (née Krige, also known as Ouma Smuts; 22 December 1870 — 25 February 1954) was the second First Lady of the Union of South...
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Jan Christian Smuts (aka Jan Christiaan Smuts), OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS (24 May 1870–11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and Commonwealth statesman...
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Gys Hofmeyr (section Jan Smuts)
politician influenced by Onze Jan Hofmeyr was General Jan Smuts. Smuts would become a strong influence on Gysbert Reitz Hofmeyr. Smuts was one year older than...
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include: Barbara Smuts (born 1950), American anthropologist Dave Smuts (David, flor. 1980–2023..), Namibian Supreme Court judge Dene Smuts (1949–2016), South...
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the question. Hertzog resigned and his coalition partner Smuts became prime minister. Smuts led the country into war, and political re-alignments followed:...
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Williams, Basil (1946). Botha Smuts and South Africa. London: Hodder and Stoughton. (comprehensive commentaries on Smuts and Botha, or as William's titled...
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favour of Smuts. Upon becoming Prime Minister of South Africa, Smuts declared South Africa officially at war with Germany and the Axis. Smuts immediately...
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SAS Jan Smuts was a Minister-class strike craft of the South African Navy. The SAS Jan Smuts was the first of the Minister class to be built and initially...
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Holism (category Jan Smuts)
was coined by Jan Smuts (1870–1950) in his 1926 book Holism and Evolution. While he never assigned a consistent meaning to the word, Smuts used holism to...
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Jan Smuts Regiment, and have 3 years to design and implement new regimental insignia. Jan Smuts, the regiment's honorific, was chosen because Smuts was...
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Second Cabet of Louis Botha, 1915–1919 First Cabinet of Jan Smuts, 1920–1921 Second Cabinet of Jan Smuts, 1921–1924 First Cabinet of J.B.M Hertzog, 1924–1929...
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Jan Smuts Ground (formerly known as Recreation Ground and The Oval) is a cricket ground in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The first recorded...
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seats in the Transvaal Legislative council were offered to Louis Botha, Jan Smuts and Koos de la Rey, but they turned the British down.: 269 Due to a lack...
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(c.1923) Front (left to right): Thomas Watt, F. S. Malan, Jan Smuts, Thomas Smartt and Henry Burton. Back (left to right): Nicolaas de Wet, Deneys Reitz...
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he became the closest advisor of Jan Smuts. He acted as Prime Minister during the Second World War, in which Smuts was heavily involved. This multi-tasking...
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fusion of Hertzog's National Party and the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts. Malan strongly opposed this merger and, in 1934, he and 19 other MPs...
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The Jan Smuts Stadium is an athletics and football stadium in the Arcadia suburb of East London, Buffalo City. The stadium is named in honour of Jan Smuts...
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becoming known as bittereinders. Led by generals such as Louis Botha, Jan Smuts, Christiaan de Wet, and Koos de la Rey, Boer guerrillas used hit-and-run...
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developed from the imperial conferences. A specific proposal was presented by Jan Smuts in 1917 when he coined the term "the British Commonwealth of Nations"...
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Jan Smuts became South African Prime Minister for the second time in 1939, following a split in the United Party. He appointed members of the United Party...
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National Party's constant promotion of Jan Smuts to be similar to the British. Leading the United Party, Smuts proposed rather liberal policies, more...
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the German Empire. Both Prime Minister Louis Botha and Defence Minister Jan Smuts were former Second Boer War generals who had fought against the British...
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Military history of South Africa during World War II (section Field Marshal and Prime Minister Smuts)
of Smuts. Upon becoming Prime Minister, on 6 September Smuts declared South Africa officially at war with Germany and the Axis. Immediately, Smuts set...
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included most members of his own party, supported his deputy, Jan Smuts. Like Hertzog, Smuts also famously commanded Boer forces during the war but nonetheless...
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Holism and Evolution (category Jan Smuts)
African statesman Jan Smuts, in which he coined the word "holism", although Smuts' meaning differs from the modern concept of holism. Smuts defined holism...
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National Bank to the Attorney General Jan Smuts. On the 4 June 1900, with the British forces now at Six Mile Spruit, Jan Smuts arrived at the Mint just before...
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