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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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    (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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Three prime ministers have been Minister of Justice, including two – Jan Smuts and B. J. Vorster – who held the position directly before being elected...
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  • period, Smuts further solidified his political alliance and personal friendship with Louis Botha. A new nation required a new prime minister. Smuts knew...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    UK at Waymarking Statue of Field Marshal Jan Smuts, National Heritage List for England Historic England Smuts statue, londonremembers.com Parliament Square...
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    Hertzog resigned. Jan Smuts succeeded him and led the party and the country throughout World War II and the immediate post-war years. Smuts and the United...
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    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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  • Professor Christiaan Barnard, the pioneering heart surgeon, to General Jan Smuts, wartime Prime Minister and co-founder of the League of Nations, to Shaka...
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    flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan, to Jan Smuts International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, with a stopover in...
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