Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
… a prominent role in the pacifying and uniting of the Boer communities in the early 1860’s, when there was conflict … annexed the Transvaal, Kruger became the champion of the Boer nation in their struggle to regain and keep their … the rights of ‘uitlanders’. The South African War, or Anglo-Boer War , broke out on 11 October 1899, and Kruger, …