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from its owner, one Mr Begbie, blew up with the loss of some thirty lives, an event witnessed by
Deneys Reitz. It was said to be the act of a British saboteur, but Reitz learned a quarter of a century
later that the former owner had had a Zulu servant working in the place. From him Begbie heard that
the Italian workers were careless, smoking cigarettes and throwing down the stubs, and he attributed
the explosion to that practice.
After the Battle of Doornkop on 29 May 1900 the British surrounded the town and Major F. J.
Davies, of the Grenadier Guards, went to demand surrender. Special Commandant F. E. T. Krause
and Volksraad member J. P. Meyer offered “unconditional surrender” on the condition that the armed
Boers were given time to leave. This was agreed and Lord Roberts entered Johannesburg the next
day. Later in the war a refugee or concentration camp for white people was set up on the racecourse.
See also:
Doornkop, Battle of; Pretoria.
Reference:
Jones, Huw G. and Meurig G. M. Jones, A Gazetteer of the Second Anglo-Boer War 1889–1902
(Milton Keynes, The Military Press, 1999); Reitz, Deneys, Commando: A Boer Journal of the
Boer War (London, Faber & Faber, 1929; Prescott, Arizona, Wolfe Publishing, 1994); Reitz,
Deneys, No Outspan (1942; Prescott, Arizona, Wolfe Publishing, 1994); Troup, Freda, South
Africa: An Historical Introduction (London, Eyre Methuen, 1972).
Joiners
After the capitals of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal had been taken by the British in 1900,
Lord Roberts offered terms to Boers for their surrender. They were required to yield up their arms
and to take an oath not to renew the fight. Men who did this and stood by their oath were known as
hands-uppers, and suffered the contempt of those who fought on. Hate was reserved for those who
enlisted with the British as active troops, the joiners.
Christiaan De Wet tells of his last conversation with his brother Piet, also a general, on 19 July
1900. Piet asked if Christiaan still saw any chance of being able to continue the struggle. “The
question made me very angry, and I did not try to hide the fact. ‘Are you mad?’ I shouted, and with that
I turned on my heel and entered the house, quite unaware that Piet De Wet had at that very moment
mounted his horse, and ridden away to follow his own course.” Piet subsequently served in the
Orange River Colony Volunteers, a British formation. Christiaan writes of this on page 170 of his
book, and in the remaining pages, up to 519, the only mention of Piet is in the index.
See also:
Cronjé, Vecht-general Andries P. J.; De Wet, Vecht-general Piet D.; Hands-uppers.
Reference:
De Wet, Christiaan, Three Years War (London, Archibald Constable, 1902).
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