Boekenhoutfontein Farm

Paul Kruger bought this farm in 1859. It remained his property until his death, after which it was divided among three of his children. In 1971 it was declared a national monument.
Paul Kruger (1825-1904) was the Boer leader of the uprise in the First Boer War (1880-1881) and president of the African Republic (Transvaal Republic) in the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Kruger left for Europe as the war turned against the Boers in 1900. After he died, on 14 July 1904 in Montreux-Clarens, Switzerland, his body was returned to South Africa for a state funeral, and buried in the Heroes' Acre in Pretoria.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Janek Szymanowski