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Botha, Louis 1862-1919
South African statesman and soldier
He was born in Greytown, Natal. A member of the Transvaal Volksraad, he succeeded Piet Joubert (1900) as Commander-in-Chief of the Boer forces during the war, and in 1907 became Prime Minister of the Transvaal colony under the new constitution. In 1907 and 1911 he attended imperial conferences in London; in 1910 he became the first premier of the Union of South Africa. He suppressed Christiaan De Wet's rebellion in 1914, and conquered German Southwest Africa in 1914-15.
Bibliography: Earl Buxton, General Botha (1924)
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