Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
… become the Zuid Afrikaanse Republiek(ZAR). When Kruger was 16 he received his first farm near present-day Rustenburg, as … suburb of Pretoria is named after her). Together they had 16 children, but some died in infancy. Kruger began his … The South African War, or Anglo-Boer War , broke out on 11 October 1899, and Kruger, now 74, remained in Pretoria as …