Louis Botha
… a young soldier, Frederich Boot, or Botha, arrived at the Cape and later became a free burgher. Several of his … was enforced. Smuts and Botha carried out raids into the Cape and Natal. Kitchener, on his own initiative, opened … Colonel S G (Manie) Maritz, who commanded the north-western Cape border, defected to the Germans. The protest in …