Hunter and politician Johannes Viljoen dies

Big-game hunter, commandant, politician and scout Johannes Willem Viljoen (Jan) died in the Marico district, Western Transvaal. Together with three other hunters, Viljoen was allowed to hunt in Mashonaland by Mzilikazi, penetrating to regions where no other Whites had ever been. Many people, as well as his relatives, assert that it was on one of these trips that he and not David Livingstone, as is commonly believed, became the first White person to see the Victoria Falls. During the civil war in the Transvaal in 1863-64, his people's army was defeated by Paul Kruger's government forces between Rustenburg and Pretoria. He led a Boer commando in the First South African War (First Anglo-Boer War) against Montshiwa. Sources: (Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau. Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa Vol.11, Cape Town: NASOU.