Afrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed

Date: 4 Sep 1900
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

Afrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed

Danie Theron, an Afrikaner patriot believing in the just and divine right of the Boer to stand against British interference, died during the Second Anglo-Boer War in an inferno of lyddite and shrapnel. Six months prior to the start of the South African War II, Danie Theron was found guilty of assaulting Mr W. F. Monneypenny, the editor of The Star newspaper, and fined £20. Monneypenny, who had only been in South Africa for two months, had written a highly derogatory editorial against the "ignorant Dutch". At the conclusion of Theron’s case his fine was paid by his supporters in the courtroom. Danie Theron was born in Tulbagh in the Cape on 9 May 1872 and was only 28 years old when he died.

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01Walkerville South Africa, ‘Danie Theron in Eikenhof’, [online], available at www.walkervillesa.co.za (Accessed: 21 August 2013)
02Boddy-Evans, A. ‘Danie Theron -- Hero of the Anglo-Boer War’, [online], available at https://africanhistory.about.com (Accessed: 21 August 2013)

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South African History Online. (2013, August 29). Afrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0096362

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