And wan’t the murder of the German preacher Reverend Hesse treated as an international incident by the Deutsche Kaiserreich whose diplomatic pressures led directly to the executions of Lieutenants Morant and Handcock?
The Boer War was among the ugliest of wars and the British forces whose ranks included soldiers of all the Dominions did what they had to do to fight and survive. Tragically, the German reverend was seen by them as a spy.
I say this as Jan Christiaan Smuts is one of my childhood heroes to this day and that the Union of South Africa was not the worst thing to happen to that unhappy continent.
Meanwhile let Morant and Handcock rest in peace with their names cleared for all posterity.
Smuts was a brilliant but practical man, a realist, the perfect proto-type of an American RHINO.
Seeing his nation under the british boot, he hoped for the best, and by grace never lived to see that in fact he was a traitor to his people.
Kill the Boer.