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Smuts, Jan Christiaan
I. Introduction

Smuts, Jan Christiaan (1870-1950), South African statesman, Boer general in the South African War against Britain, leader of the post-war policy of conciliation, member of the British Imperial War Cabinet in both World Wars, founding champion of the League of Nations, and Prime Minister of South Africa (1919-1924; 1939-1948).

Contributed By:
Kevin Shillington, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Historian of Africa. Author, The Colonisation of the Southern Tswana; History of Southern Africa; Jugnauth: Prime Minister of Mauritius; Ghana and the Rawlings Factor; and History of Africa. Editor, Encyclopedia of African History.
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