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Updated: June 16, 2025
PRINSLOO said that he had gone through the petitions from Potchefstroom, and certainly he had to admit that many of the signatures were not genuine, for he found on these petitions the names of his next-door neighbours, who had never told him a word about their signing such petitions. Mr. OTTO again addressed the Raad, endeavouring to prove that memorials from Ottos Hoop contained many forgeries.
Towards the end of the month a considerable stock of provisions were conveyed to Zeerust, and a garrison left to hold that town so as to release Methuen's column for service elsewhere. Hart's sphere of action was originally round Potchefstroom.
Burgers elected president His character and aspirations His pension from the English Government His visit to England The railway loan Relations of the republic with native tribes The pass laws Its quarrel with Cetywayo Confiscation of native territory by the Keate award Treaty with the Swazi king The Secocoeni war Capture of Johannes' stronghold by the Swazi allies Attack on Secocoeni's mountain Defeat and dispersion of the Boers Elation of the natives Von Schlickmann's volunteers Cruelties perpetrated Abel Erasmus Treatment of natives by Boers Public meeting at Potchefstroom in 1768 The slavery question Some evidence on the subject Pecuniary position of the Transvaal prior to the annexation Internal troubles Divisions amongst the Boers Hopeless condition of the country.
They divided and subdivided within their own borders, like a germinating egg. The Transvaal was full of lusty little high-mettled communities, who quarrelled among themselves as fiercely as they had done with the authorities at the Cape. Lydenburg, Zoutpansberg, and Potchefstroom were on the point of turning their rifles against each other.
Sir Bartle Frere before his departure took an opportunity at a public dinner given him at Potchefstroom of assuring the loyal inhabitants of the country that the Transvaal would never be given back.
A young burgher, while riding behind a ridge and thus quite hidden from the enemy, was hit by a bomb, and both he and his horse were blown to atoms. This youth was a son of Mr. Gideon van Tonder, a member of the Executive Council. Another Lyddite shell so severely wounded two brothers, named Wolfaard, Potchefstroom burghers, that we almost despaired of their lives. Nevertheless, they recovered.
The southern column was Hunter's Xth Division, which after easily occupying Potchefstroom and Krugersdorp, passed through Johannesburg, and on Hunter's being sent into the Free State was broken up at Heidelberg. The northern column, under Baden-Powell, occupied Rustenburg and met with little opposition during the month of June.
On the afternoon when I received the above-mentioned letter, there was still a way of escape open to me, through Parijs to Potchefstroom. This road crossed the Vaal River at Schoemansdrift, and then followed the course of the stream between Parijs and Vanvurenskloof.
I led my burghers that evening across the Vaal River to Venterskroon, which lies six miles from Schoemansdrift. The following morning my scouts reported that the English were rapidly approaching from Potchefstroom in two divisions; one was at Zandnek: the other had already reached Roodekraal on its way to Schoemansdrift.
But there was no such discord here. The two old brothers of Mr. Botha, Philip and Hekky, were heart and soul with us. Potchefstroom was not at that time in the hands of the English. I rode over to the town, and then it was that the well-known photo was taken of me that has been spread about everywhere, in which I am represented with a Mauser in my hand.
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