"[He epitomized the Boer character] both in its brighter and darker aspects and was […] the greatest man – both morally and intellectually – which the Boer race has so far produced."
— Paul Kruger

January 1, 1970

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Jan Smuts on 14 Julie 1904, as quoted in Bergh, J.S., 2017, Paul Kruger toesprake en korrespondensie van 1881-1900, Protea Boekhuis, Pretoria.