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spread across the country he had a number of narrow escapes from the British, but he described
the strategy as “blockhead” and played down the impact it had on the Boers. At the peace conference
in Vereeniging in May 1902 he spoke strongly in favour of a continuation of the war but was obliged
to recognise the sufferings of the people and accept the majority verdict for peace.
On the outbreak of the First World War De Wet joined the uprising against the British but was
captured by his former comrades near Vryberg in the Orange Free State. On his death in 1922 he was
buried at the Vrouemonument,the Women’s Memorial in the grounds of what is now the War Museum
of the Boer Republics in Bloemfontein.
See also:
Bothaville, Action at; Brand-water Basin, Surrender at; De Wet, Vecht-general Piet; Driefontein,
Battle of; Jammerbergdrif, Siege of; Koedoesberg Drift, Battle of; Nicholson’s Nek, Action at;
Olifant’s Nek; Paardeberg, Battle of; Poplar Grove, Battle of; Reddersburg, Battle of; Sannaspos,
Battle of; Waterval Drift, Action at.
Reference:
De Wet, Christiaan, Three Years War (London, Archibald Constable, 1902); Hall, Darrell, ed.
Fransjohan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage, The Hall Handbook of the Anglo-Boer War
(Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999); Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer War: South
Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999); Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War
(London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979; Abacus, 1992).
De Wet, Vecht-General Piet D.,
1861–1929
Piet De Wet was the younger brother of Christiaan. He fought for the Boers at Majuba in the First
Boer War and was at Ladysmith early in the second. After fighting with distinction at Sannaspos and
Lindley, he met with his brother at Paardekraal on 19 July 1900. He asked him if he saw any chance
of being able to continue the struggle, to which Christiaan responded with an angry remark and turned
away.
Piet surrendered to the British on 26 July and in December became Chairman of the Burgher
Peace Committee. In early 1901 he wrote a letter to his brother explaining his decision, pleading for
negotiations before the Orange Free State was utterly laid to waste, telling him more and more British
were on their way to South Africa and suggesting that Christiaan had been hoodwinked by the
Transvaal generals to do their fighting for them. The bearer was flogged and sent back with a message
that Christiaan would shoot Piet like a dog if he got the chance.
Piet visited Cape Colony to urge peace on doubters and on prisoners-of-war and later helped
raise the Orange River Colony Volunteers, a formation of Boers who acted as guides and scouts for
the British and who were regarded as traitors by their countrymen. Piet commanded the Heilbron
section. After the war he returned to farming and died, an out-cast from his people, near Lindley in
1929.
See also:
Joiners; Lindley, Battle of; Sannaspos, Battle of.
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