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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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    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 Christiaan Smuts, OM (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) served served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and from 1939...
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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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    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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    premature and to some extent caused by the heavy burden of all the work that Smuts had entrusted to him. Smuts may have helped to win the war in Europe, but at...
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    (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 Africa...
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  • Hertzog, Jan Smuts, and D.F. Malan, as well as his tireless attempts to fight Nazi influence in South Africa. Sonnenberg's great admiration of Smuts reached...
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  • in 1902. In the disastrous early stages, Smuts served in Pretoria, far behind the front line. Necessity soon thrust Smuts into the guerrilla campaign...
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    Louis Botha (category Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa))
    (insights of Botha) Williams, Basil (1946). Botha Smuts and South Africa. London: Hodder and Stoughton. (comprehensive commentaries on Smuts and Botha...
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    Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, OM, CH, ED, KC, FRS (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and Commonwealth statesman, military...
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    airport was founded in 1952 as Jan Smuts International Airport, two years after Smuts's death. Situated near the town of Kempton Park on the East Rand...
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  • Holistic education (category Philosophy of education)
    Marshal General Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950), who is noted for his role in the foundation of the League of Nations, and the formation of the international...
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    the opening (preamble) of the 1945 United Nations Charter. Jan Smuts from South Africa originally wrote the opening lines of the Preamble as, "The High...
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    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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    Tobias Smuts, leaning on a rifle. Jan van Hoepen: Boer general Tobias Smuts. Smuts, Tobias (1902). Letter from assistant-general Tobias Smuts to commandant-general...
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  • Jan Smuts was the only important non-British general whose advice was constantly sought by Britain's wartime prime minister Winston Churchill. Smuts was...
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  • Minister Jan Smuts were former Second Boer War generals who had fought against the British, but then became active and respected members of the Imperial...
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    Jopie Fourie (category South African people of Dutch descent)
    district of Rustenburg on 16 December 1914. After the rebellion was put down by Louis Botha and Jan Smuts, the ringleaders received fines and terms of imprisonment...
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  • Irene, Gauteng (category Jan Smuts)
    scattered on Smuts Koppie, the longtime site of the Smuts' family home, near Doornkloof. Today, the Smuts House Museum on the site illustrates the life-style...
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    Manie Maritz (category South African police officers convicted of crimes)
    Deneys Reitz was on the staff of General Jan Smuts. Reitz writes that Maritz was only a "leader of various rebel bands". If Smuts had appointed Maritz as a...
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    Patrick Duncan (South African politician) (category South African Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    but Parliament, included most members of his own party, supported his deputy, Jan Smuts. Like Hertzog, Smuts also famously commanded Boer forces during...
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    Daniel Theron (category People of the Second Boer War)
    of his late fiancée Hannie Neethling on her father's farm Eikenhof on the Klip (Rock) River. On 28 December 1907, Generals Louis Botha and Jan Smuts unveiled...
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  • Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and Commonwealth statesman and military leader. He served as a...
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    D. F. Malan (category Ministers of Home Affairs of South Africa)
    the United Party was formed out of the fusion of Hertzog's National Party and the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts. Malan strongly opposed this merger...
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    The Minister of Defence and Military Veterans (formerly the Minister of Defence) is a Minister in the Government of South Africa, who is responsible for...
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    J. B. M. Hertzog (category Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa))
    the government of General Smuts. In the general election of 1924, Hertzog's National Party defeated the South African Party of Jan Smuts and formed a coalition...
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    Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss (category Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa))
    self-pity. Strauss had earlier been minister of agriculture in the cabinet of Jan Smuts from 1943 until the defeat of the Smuts government in 1948. In...
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    what Jan Smuts articulated (Smuts coined the term "holism"), that is, the spiritual sense of one-ness that holism usually implies (etymology of holism:...
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    South West Africa campaign (category Jan Smuts)
    1914 and forces loyal to the government under the command of Generals Louis Botha and Jan Smuts proceeded to destroy the rebellion. Maritz was defeated...
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