Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts,was a South African statesman,military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts,he served as prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and 1939 to 1948.
Neil Aggett was a Kenyan and South African doctor and trade union organiser who was killed,while in detention,by the Security Branch of the Apartheid South African Police Service after being held for 70 days without trial.
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr was a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding apartheid. In his lifetime he was regarded as one of the cleverest men in the country,and it was widely expected that he would eventually become Prime Minister of South Africa. He came from a well-known Afrikaner family;his uncle,also Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr but known affectionately as "Onze Jan" among fellow Afrikaners,was a famous figure in the Afrikaans language movement.
John Xavier Merriman was a South African politician who served as the eleventh Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1908 to 1910. He was the last prime minister of the Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910.
Deneys Reitz (1882–1944),son of Francis William Reitz,was a Boer warrior who fought in the Second Boer War for the Boer Republics against the British Empire. After a period of exile in French Madagascar he returned to South Africa,where he became a lawyer and founded a major South African law firm. In the First World War he fought for the Union of South Africa against the German Empire,and then was an officer in the British Army,commanding several battalions. In later life he was a politician. Deneys Reitz was educated at Grey College,Bloemfontein.
Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts,OM,CH,ED,KC,FRS was a prominent South African and Commonwealth statesman,military leader,and philosopher. He served as a Boer General during the Boer War,a British General during the First World War and was appointed Field Marshal by King George VI during the Second World War. In addition to various cabinet appointments,he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. From 1917 to 1919 he was one of five members of the British War Cabinet,helping to create the Royal Air Force. He played a leading part in the post-war settlements at the end of both world wars,making significant contributions towards the creation of the League of Nations and the United Nations. He did much to redefine the relationship between Britain and the Dominions and Colonies,leading to the formation of the British Commonwealth.
Jan Christiaan Smuts,OM served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and from 1939 to 1948. He played a leading part in the post war settlements at the end of both world wars,making significant contributions towards the creation of both the League of Nations and the United Nations.
Kingswood College is an independent,co-educational Methodist school in Makhanda,. Founded in 1894 by William C Muirhead,Clifford Witheridge Dold,William Burnett Stocks and Richard Restall Stocks,Kingswood caters for boys and girls from Grade 000 to Grade 13 from all over the world.
James Thomson "JT" Bain was a socialist and syndicalist in colonial South Africa.
Sir Lionel Phillips,1st Baronet was a British-born South African financier,mining magnate and politician.
Donald Barkly Molteno,known as Dilizintaba,was a South African parliamentarian,constitutional lawyer,champion of civil rights and a prominent opponent of Apartheid.
Major Pieter Voltelyn Graham "P. V." van der Byl MC was a South African soldier and statesman. In South African politics,he was a member of the liberal South African Party and then the United Party from 1929 to 1966 and a member of Jan Smuts' cabinet from 1939 to 1948,during which time,he was minister of Native Affairs. Major Piet was a chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur,Honorary Colonel of the University of Cape Town Regiment,as well as receiving the Military Cross and the King George VI Coronation Medal.
Barend Jacobus "Ben" Schoeman was a South African politician of the National Party prominent during the apartheid era. He served as the Minister of Labour from 1948 to 1954,and the Minister of Transport from 1954 until 1974.
Sir Edward Phillip Solomon was a successful lawyer and politician of the Transvaal Colony and the Union of South Africa.
Sir William Thomas Smartt was an Irish-born South African politician,and founder and leader of the Unionist Party.
David Jacobus de Villiers was an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church;a South African Government minister and a Springbok rugby captain.
Richard Stuttaford was a South African businessman and parliamentarian.
Walter Bayley Madeley was a leader of the South African Labour Party and a cabinet minister.
Paul Oliver Sauer was a South African Cabinet Minister and lifelong member of the National Party.
Sir Thomas Watt KCMG was a South African politician and cabinet minister.
Smuts Cabinet c1923
Jagger Library as it appeared during a protest in 2015
