Jan Christian Smuts, who became South Africa's second Prime Minister in 1919, was born on the farm Bovenplaats near Riebeeck West in the Cape. Smuts had a distinguished political career as an international statesman and a general in the South African Army. He also participated in the Second Anglo-Boer War (South African War).
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24 May 1870
Jan Smuts is born
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- 23 May 2021
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- 02Spartacus Education, Jan Smuts,From:Spartacus Education, [online], Available at: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk [Accessed 22 May 2013]
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