BOTHA IN THE HOME OF RHODES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 May 1915, Page 2

BOTHA IN THE HOME OF RHODES.

PAST AXD PRESENT

Mr C. F. Andrews, in the Modern Review, gives this glimpse of General Botha's house—Groote Schuur : — "This country house was presented by Cecil Rhodes (in his will) to the Premier of the South African Union for the time being, whoever he might .be, and,a Boer General was the first to occupy it. The place is eight miles out of Capetown on a spur of Table Mountain. I doubt if there are many grander views than that from Groote Schuur. At the back of the house the beetling crags of Table Mountain rise almost perpendicularly towards the sky; whilst in front, far below, the blue waters of Table Bay fade away on the horizon. I walked out along the side of Table Mountain, and at every turn of the road the vision .of beauty was fresh and new; but the most beautiful spot of all was Groote Schuur itself. Mrs Botha, the General's wife, is devoted to her home— a deeply' religious woman, simple and domestic, gentle and lovable." It is Rhodes' one-time enemy and present successor who is leading the expedition to add German South-West Africa to the British Empire.