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9 juil. 2024 · Jan Smuts was a South African statesman, soldier, and prime minister (1919–24, 1939–48), who sought to promote South Africa as a responsible member of the (British) Commonwealth. Jan Christian Smuts was born on a farm near Riebeeck West in the Cape Colony.
9 juil. 2024 · Jan Smuts - WWI Leader, Boer General, Statesman: Just as Smuts was drawn into the public life of his own country, so, after the outbreak of World War I, he was drawn into international affairs.
Il y a 6 jours · Jan Smuts from South Africa originally wrote the opening lines of the Preamble as, "The High Contracting Parties, determined to prevent a recurrence of the fratricidal strife which twice in our generation has brought untold sorrow and loss upon mankind. . ."
18 juil. 2024 · In 50 years of ser vice for – and against – the Crown, a Boer lawyer-turned-general became a British field marshal, Churchill’s ostensible deputy and spearheaded the creation of the R AF and the UN. Gerr y van Tonder profiles the enigmatic warriorstatesman Jan Smuts.
Il y a 1 jour · 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 the East Rand, it replaced Palmietfontein International Airport, which had handled European flights since 1945.
11 juil. 2024 · Jan Smuts returned to the office, which he had previously occupied from 1919 to 1924, on 5 September 1939. To the dismay of the Afrikaner nationalist opposition, the next day Smuts officially announced that South Africa was at war with Germany.
19 juil. 2024 · In the general election of 1924, Hertzog's National Party defeated the South African Party of Jan Smuts and formed a coalition government with the South African Labour Party, which became known as the Pact Government.
