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  ZAR.co.za - Biography of Jan Smuts
Jan Christian Smuts holds the unique distinction of being the only individual to sign both peace settlements reached after the First and Second World Wars.
Of Afrikaner roots (Smuts was born in Malmesbury, Cape Colony), Smuts fought in the Second Boer War of 1899-1902 against the British.
It was during the Boer War that Smuts became acquainted with Louis Botha, forming a close friendship that lasted until the latter's death in 1919.
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  Jan Smuts
Jan Christiaan Smuts, (1870 - 1950) was a prominent South African statesman and soldier.
Smuts was a supporter of Cecil Rhodes until it was revealed that Rhodes had instigated the fateful Jameson Raid by a group of Uitlanders[?] on the Transvaal Republic[?].
Smuts returned to South Africa after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and served two terms as prime minister (1919-1924) and (1933 - 1939).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jan_Smuts.html   (245 words)

  
 Smuts, Jan Christiaan - MSN Encarta
Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950), South African leader, who promoted the connection of his country with Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations.
Born on May 24, 1870, near Riebeek-Wes in the British-dominated Cape Colony, Smuts was a member of a prominent Afrikaner family and was educated at the University of Cambridge in England.
He was instrumental in securing self-government under British rule for the defeated Boers (1907) and in arranging the merger of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State with Natal and the Cape Colony to form the Union of South Africa (1910).
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Jan Christian Smuts
Of Afrikaner roots (Smuts was born on 24 May 1870 in Malmesbury, Cape Colony), Smuts fought in the Second Boer War of 1899-1902 against the British.
It was during the Boer War that Smuts became acquainted with Louis Botha, forming a close friendship that lasted until the latter's death in 1919.
Despite Lloyd George's reputation as an ardent 'Easterner', Smuts continued in his belief that the primary theatre of war should remain the Western Front (led by Douglas Haig), although he backed Lloyd George's view that a major campaign be initiated in Palestine (although Smuts declined Lloyd George's offer to lead it).
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 AllRefer.com - Jan Christiaan Smuts (Southern African History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Smuts was instrumental in the creation (1910) of the Union of South Africa (see South Africa).
Smuts continuously held office in Botha's cabinet, serving as minister of defense (1910–19), of interior and mines (1910–12), and of finance (1912–13).
Smuts was (1933–39) minister of justice in a coalition cabinet, but when Prime Minister Hertzog opposed entering World War II, Smuts became prime minister.
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 Jan Christian Smuts Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The South African soldier, statesman, and philosopher Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950) was one of the founders of the Union of South Africa and an architect of the League of Nations and of the United Nations.
Jan Smuts the second son of Jacobus Abraham Smuts, a prosperous farmer and a member of the Cape Legislative Assembly, was born on May 24, 1870, on a farm in the Malmesbury district of the Cape Colony (Cape Province).
Smuts was a scholar and a reformer in politics who combined vision and ambition; he remained the source of ideas and the power behind the scenes.
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 Jan Smuts
Jan Smuts was educated in both South Africa and England.
Smuts commanded the Boer commando forces in Cape Colony during the Boer War.
Smuts had moderate views on issues of race, and this helped insure his party's loss in the 1948 elections.
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 Jan Smuts
Jan Christian Smuts was born in Malmesbury, Cape Colony in 1870.
Smuts held a succession of cabinet posts, including defence minister, under President Louis Botha but on the outbreak of the First World War, Smuts rejoined the army and led South Africa's successful campaign in German East-Africa.
Smuts worked closely with Winston Churchill during the Second World War and was the only man to sign the peace treaties at the end of both wars.
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 Jan Christiaan Smuts und der Holismus (Stefan Blankertz und Erhard Doubrawa)
Würdigung: Obwohl Smuts eine antideutsche Politik betrieb (und Deutschland 1939 den Krieg erklärte), wurde sein Werk »Holism and Evolution« (1924) 1938 in Nazi-Deutschland veröffentlicht.
Smuts bezieht sich bei diesem Aspekt auf Immanuel Kant.
Smuts bezieht sich bei diesem Aspekt auf Hegel.
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Smuts was attracted to politics and was a supporter of the Rhodes-Hofmeyr partnership until he was disillusioned by the Jameson Raid (organised by Rhodes) and became a republican and an Afrikaner nationalist.
Smuts was a man of daunting intellect and among his friends were Winston Churchill and Mohandas Gandhi.
Smuts contributed to the policy-making decisions of the Allied forces and was promoted to field marshal of the British Army in 1941.
www.sahistory.org.za /pages/people/smuts-j.htm   (1040 words)

  
 Star: In the house where Jan Smuts lived
Smuts paid £300 sterling for the structure and another £1 000 to have it moved and re-erected in the veld outside Irene.
Smuts and the boys occupied this wing of the house and it is said he simply had to clear his throat to order the youngsters to stop reading and put out the lights.
In 1934, Smuts wrote of his vision for the "new education" and said that the task of schools should be to prevent the swamping of personality in commonplace mediocrity.
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 Jan Smuts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Smuts and Botha took the constitution to London, where it was passed by Parliament, and signed into law by Edward VII in December 1909.
Smuts was criticised for his over-arching powers, and was reshuffled, losing his positions in charge of Defence and the Mines, but gaining control of the Treasury.
Smuts' importance to the Imperial war effort was emphasised by a quite audacious plan, proposed as early as 1940, to appoint Smuts as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, should Churchill die or otherwise become incapacitated during the war.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Smuts,   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Smuts, Jan Christiaan SMUTS, JAN CHRISTIAAN [Smuts, Jan Christiaan], 1870-1950, South African statesman and soldier, b.
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Field Marshall Jan Smuts, (African Boer general who fought against the British in the Boer War of 1899-1902), photographed in the garden of Groote Schuur, the official residenc (LON8751)
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 Smuts - smut: Definition, Synonyms and Much More from Answers.com
IngentaConnect Bunts and smuts of wheat in North Africa and the
Jan Smuts House Library - The South African Institute of
General Jan Christiaan Smuts was not only a world-famed statesman and a soldier, Smuts was attracted to politics and was a supporter of the
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 Smuts, Jan
Jan Christian Smuts was born 24 May 1870, on the farm Ongegund near Riebeeck West in what is now South Africa.
After the start of the Boer War and the fall of Pretoria in June 1900, Smuts took to the field and led a Boer unit in the area of Vereeniging and Potchefstroom.
Smuts participated in the meetings at Vereeniging and was there when the surrender was signed at the end of May 1902.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/bio/s/smuts.html   (597 words)

  
 Gems: Smuts, Hobbes, Kant, Darwin & Holy Quraan
Unfortunately, Smuts used the word "creative", as such words as this and "purpose", attributed to the holistic mental construct, imply will, consciousness and intention, none of which is found in inanimate matter.
Smuts' observation of the consequence of material nature's characteristics upon evolution was correct, but the attribute of "creativeness" to this creates confusion.
The aspiration of the Holistic Personality of Smuts is for the full and pure freedom of expression of the individual as a unique personality as opposed to the social norms or conventions such as ambition, patriotism, and love of money or power.
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 Black Arts Diary: Dancing the Tambo Tango   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the spirit of the times, Jan Smuts (being white) was held up as a symbol of...
In the spirit of the times, Jan Smuts (being white) was held up as a symbol of apartheid rule.
In fact, Jan Smuts opposed the National Party all his life, had quite a few loopy ideas on the holistic nature of the planet and its inhabitants, and was involved in the founding of the League of Nations (forerunner of the United Nations).
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 Alibris: Smuts
Sex and Friendship in Baboons Barbara B. Smuts When it first appeared in the mid-1980s, this book transcended the traditional ethological focus on sexual interactions by analyzing male-female relationships outside the context of mating in a troop of wild baboons.
Jan Christian Smuts: The Conscience of a South African
Painstakingly documented, expertly written, even proofread by General Smuts himself, this is not only an engaging history of Africa but an invaluable description of the first world war, President Wilson's plans and the resulting peace treaties.
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 Jan Smuts - Father of Holism - Mountain Man's News Archive
Jan Smuts (South African philosopher-statesman, father of "Holism", 1870-1950) wrote regarding the "mountain" and his own encounters.
On the 25th February 1923 Jan Smuts climbed Table Mountain to unveil a memorial to memembers of the Mountain Club who had fallen in the Great War of 1914-18.
Smuts first became acquainted with this "Mountain" as a small boy growing up on an African farm.
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 Jan Smuts
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Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, PC, ED, KC, FRS (May 24, 1870 - September 11, 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader, and philosopher.
In addition to various cabinet appointments, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948.
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From there, Jan Smuts heads into Craighall Park, a nice suburb but with a commercial area along Jan Smuts.
This section of Jan Smuts narrows somewhat - the original road builders obviously never suspected that the road would carry so much traffic.
Here Jan Smuts passes through the western end of the upmarket area of Rosebank.
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 Jan Christiaan Smuts — FactMonster.com
By 1904 he concluded that the cooperation of Boer and British elements was essential to the greatness of South Africa, and he joined with Louis
Smuts was instrumental in the creation (1910) of the Union of South Africa (see
Smuts was (1933–39) minister of justice in a coalition cabinet, but when Prime Minister
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 Smuts Discussion   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The author is very much aware about the deep misunderstandings Karl POPPER had about the works of Jan Smuts but also feels it is better that some study and discussion should be conducted about the very roots of the concept of Holism.
It is ironic that in psychology or medicine Jan C. SMUTS is seen as the father of holism but system sciences somehow has forgotten or neglected him.
Smuts created the term ‘Holism’; and wrote and extraordinary book, called: EVOLUTION AND HOLISM which for some time was very well received.
www.newciv.org /ISSS_Primer/asem03sd.html   (2575 words)

  
 Jan Smuts ... JHB Int ... ? Ekurhuleni Int ? Oliver Tambo Int ? - PPRuNe Forums
Few people actually call it Jan Smuts — I’ve given up telling people I live near Jan Smuts I now tell them JoBug International and avoid the “oh where’s that / is it busy” questions.
I have it from the very highest authority that the international airport at Johannesburg - FAJS- Jan Smuts, which is what I shall always call it is to be renamed.
Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) is one of the great unsung Africa heroes.
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