A POLITICAL TRUCE
SOUTH AFRICAN PARTIES LAYING OF FOUNDATION STONE CAPETOWN, Nov. 30. The laying of the foundation stone of the Voortrekker centenary memorial on Dingaan’s Day, December 16, will be responsible for a month’s political truce, beginning at midnight. This proposal was made by General Hertzog. Dr
Malan, leader of the Nationalist Republicans, and Colonel Stallard. leader of the extreme English speakers, accepted the olive branch
Dingaan was a Zulu chief who wiped out one of the Boer laagers at Weenen in 1838. but finally, after some confused fighting, in which the English from Port Natal helped the Boers, the Boer leader Pretorius, with reinforcements from the Free State, crushed Dingaan at the Blood River in December. This victory is still celebrated throughout South Africa as Dingaan’s Day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23672, 2 December 1938, Page 9
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