General de la rey biography samples
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The Observation Post
The Chronology of Apartheid: 1652 – 1952
In 2017 Hélène Opperman Lewis released a “psychology” book titled “Apartheid: Britain’s Bastard Child”, the name and cover image of a Boer child emancipated by disease in a concentration camp kicked off a latent voice of Afrikaner Apartheid apologists who held it up as proof positive – the British ‘invented’ Apartheid. She has been joined lately by Albert Blake, who in 2024 in his book on Jopie Fourie used a similar argument of a latent psychological trauma the British imparted on the Afrikaner nation as the raison d’exister for Apartheid.
Despite Opperman Lewis facing serious criticism on trying to peddle a psychological book using the trauma and victim argument to claim ‘her people’ were unwittingly led to commit the crime of Apartheid – detractors noting that her argument was completely unhinged from nearly every history discipline
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Koos de la Rey
South African military officer during the Boer Wars (1847–1914)
Jacobus Herculaas de la Rey (pronounced phonetically as "Ya-qui-bis Hehr-key-lahs de la Ray") (22 October 1847 – 15 September 1914),[1] better known as Koos dem la Rey, was a South African military officer who served as a Boer general during the Second Boer War. dem la Rey also had a political career and was one of the leading advocates of Boer independence. His death at the hands of the South African Police under controversial circumstances had a major role in sparking the Maritz rebellion.
Early life
[edit]Born on Doornfontein Farm in the Winburg District of the Orange Free State, Koos was the son of Adrianus Johannes Gijsbertus de la Rey and Adriana Wilhelmina van Rooyen. dem la Rey was a Boer of French Huguenot, Spanish and Dutch descent.[2] His grandfather, a school teacher and the patriarch of the De la Rey family in South Africa, came from Utrecht, Netherlands. After t
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A little biography of Koos dem la Rey
- Die leeu van die wes transvaal
A portrait of Koos dem La Rey
Jacobus Hercules (Koos) dem la Rey was a boer man and general that fryst vatten remembered for being one of the strongest boer leaders in the 2nd Boer War. He was born in 1847 at his family farm in Doornfontein in the district of Winburg, Oranje Vry Staat. He was a Boer of Spanish, Hugenot French and Dutch descendent. As a young he has many other boers received very little formal education. His family moved to Kimberley because of the finding of diamonds there, and young De la Rey worked as a transport rider. dem la Rey then married Jacoba Elizabeth Greeff and then the couple had 12 children and cared for other 6 children whose progenitors had died. He was a deeply religious man, rarely didn’t have a small Bible with him. He began is military live fighting in the Basotho War in 1865, in Sekhukune’s War in 1876 and also has a field cornet under the command of General Piet Cronjé in th