Louis Botha (1862 – 1919)

Louis Botha (1862 – 1919)
Prime Minister of Transvaal 1907
Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa 1910

Louis Botha was born on a farm 5Km south of Greytown. He was the 8th of 13th children. He went to school in Hermannsburg.

During the Anglo-Boer War he was a Boer general.

He became Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa in 1910.