General Pieter Cronje

GENERAL PIETER CRONJE
(c.1835-1911)

The picture on the left shows General Pieter Cronje, one of the great Boer leaders. On the right we see how he was successfully hunted down and humiliated by the cruel and rapacious British forces in 1900.

,,Dink nooit ofte nimmer, o Góliat, dat jy ons óóit sal oorheers!

Poog eers om te keer die opkoms van die son!"

(from "Die Opkoms van die Son" by Peter Cohen, 2009)

from Rosenthal, E., Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, London,1973, p.136.

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