24 May 1870
Birth of Jan Christian Smuts
Birth of Jan Christian Smuts
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Bovenplaats in South Africa. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Birth of Jan Christian Smuts
Formed by a merger of most of Prime Minister Barry Hertzogs National Party with the rival South Africa Party of Jan Smuts, plus the remnants of the Unionist Party
Provenance
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