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Key People

Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes
prime minister of Cape Colony
Jan Smuts.
Jan Smuts
South African statesman
Paul Kruger
Paul Kruger
South African statesman
Milner, detail of an oil painting by Hugh de Twenebrokes Glazebrook, 1901; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner
British diplomat
Theophilus Shepstone.
Sir Theophilus Shepstone
British South African statesman
Sir Leander Starr Jameson, Baronet
prime minister of the Cape Colony
Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
prime minister of United Kingdom
Andries Hendrik Potgieter
Boer leader
Andries Pretorius, portrait (artist unknown).
Andries Pretorius
Boer South African leader
Joubert, Petrus Jacobus
Petrus Jacobus Joubert
South African politician
Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch
British colonial official
Plomer
William Plomer
South African writer
Burgers, Thomas François
Thomas François Burgers
president of Transvaal
William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd earl of Selborne
British statesman