“History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.”

—  Jan Smuts

Smuts to Alfred Milner (1905), as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision ISBN 978-1-86842-390-3

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military leader, politician and statesman from South Africa 1870–1950

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