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The character General Manie Roosa, in James Rollins and Grant Blackwood's novel The Kill Switch (2014), is "very loosely based on the real-life Boer leader Manie Maritz. [ 11 ] Maritz is referred to many times in John Buchan 's Greenmantle (1916) in which the heroes, who are British spies, masquerade as veterans of Maritz's rebellion in order ...
The Book of Life grossed $50.2 million in North America and $49.8 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $100 million, against a production budget of $50 million. [6] The Book of Life was released in the United States and Canada on October 17, 2014.
Josef Johannes "Jopie" Fourie (27 August 1879 – 20 December 1914) was a Boer soldier. A scout and dispatch rider during the Boer War, he later took part in the Maritz Rebellion of 1914–1915 against General Louis Botha, the prime minister of South Africa. For his involvement, he was found guilty of treason and executed by firing squad.
The Maritz rebellion, also known as the Boer revolt, Third Boer War, [2] or the Five Shilling rebellion, [3] was an armed pro-German insurrection in South Africa in 1914, at the start of World War I. It was led by Boers who supported the re-establishment of the South African Republic in the Transvaal .
The rebels were pardoned just two years later by Botha in the interests of national reconciliation. While De la Rey would probably have been quite capable of taking to the field again at 67, it seems unlikely he would have gone against his word, especially as he had played such a leading role in bringing about the peace of Vereeniging.
Blood and Glory (Afrikaans: Modder en Bloed) is a feature film released in April 2016 in South Africa, set in 1901, at the conclusion of the Second Boer War.The period drama follows Willem Morkel, a Cape rebel (a Boer or Afrikaner) farmer, who was captured and sent to a British prisoner of war camp on the Island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Harry Harbord "Breaker' Morant" (1900). Peter Joseph Handcock (1900). Lieutenant G.R. Witton, Bushveldt Carbineers (1901). Pardons for Morant, Handcock and Witton, three Australian soldiers, were sought from their court-martial convictions for the murder of Boer prisoners-of-war and local civilians during the Second Boer War.
Captain Daniël Johannes Stephanus Theron (9 May 1872 – 5 September 1900) was a Boer military officer, teacher and lawyer best known for his service during the Second Boer War. Born in Tulbagh , Cape Colony , he was raised in Bethlehem , South African Republic .