Responses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… in the British Empire to come to its assistance. The South African Prime Minister, General Louis Botha declared … government was asked to send an army to conquer German-South West Africa. Botha agreed to raise an army of the newly formed … Men': The 1914 Rebellion and the Polities of Poverty' in South African Historical Journal , Vol 42, No.1, pp. …