Louis Botha and Jan Smuts 1
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Lecture 1 Louis Botha
This course re-examines the lives and legacies of Jan Smuts and Louis Botha. These soldier-statesmen effectively
operated as a double act at home and on the international stage before Botha’s death in August 1919. After
the South African War Botha encouraged peace between English and Afrikaner; later he led the four British
colonies (Cape, Natal, Free State and Transvaal) to Union and dominion status. During the First World War he
led South African troops to victory and the capture of German South West Africa. A big-hearted man, he pleaded
for magnanimity towards the Germans at the Peace of Versailles. Botha’s ally and successor Jan Smuts was a
champion of human rights, advisor to world leaders and an architect of the United Nations. Smuts had a rich
spiritual and intellectual life, characterised by extraordinary friendships, including one with former enemy Winston
Churchill, which spanned the first half of the twentieth century.
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