biography
pronunciation:
[bohta]
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| lived:
| (1862–1919)
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| biography:
| South African soldier, statesman, and prime minister (1910–19), born in Greytown, Natal, E South Africa. He succeeded Joubert (1900) as commander-in-chief of the Boer forces during the war, and in 1907 became prime minister of the Transvaal colony under the new constitution. In 1907 and 1911 he attended imperial conferences in London, and in 1910 became the first premier of the Union of South Africa. |
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