Johannes Henricus Brand
… Brand was the president of the Orange Free State , one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers left the Cape … in the Treaty of Thaba Bosiu, and the Sotho gave the Boers two-thirds of their arable land and 3,000 cattle. But, … to become president of the Transvaal, and thus unite the two Dutch republics of South Africa; but as the project was …