IN SOUTH AFRICA.
GENERAL BOTHA'S HEALTH. (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association) PRETORIA. July 15. General Botha, on medical "advice, will take a two months' rest, the Hon. F. S. Malan, Minister of Alines, taking charge in the meantime. The Hon. Francois Stephanus Malan, who will assume the Acting-Premier-
ship during tho abscnco of General Botha, is descended from a French Huguenot, Jacquos Malan. who landed in South Africa in 1(389. Ho was born on March 12th, IS7I, and on the conclusion of his university course oecame an advocate of tho Supreme Court of Cape Colony. Ho became Minister of Agriculture in 1908, anr? continued in that office till 1910, when ho became Minister of Education for United South Africa.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15955, 17 July 1917, Page 7
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