Man Of The Moment - Mr. Botha, Prime Minister Of The Transvaal, Who Comes To The Colonial Conference.

For Sale is a Front Page taken from "The Sphere," April 13th, 1907, showing a Portrait Photograph of "A Man Of The Moment - Mr. Botha, Prime Minister Of The Transvaal, Who Comes To The Colonial Conference."

Althiugh General Botha is Prime Minister of the Transvaal he is a native of Natal, having been born at Greytown in 1863. He was a member of the first Volksraad of the Transvaal, in which he represented Vyrheid, and he acted for that district as veldt cornet at the beginning of the recent war, succeeding General Joubert as Commander-in-Chief of the Boer forces, which he commanded at the battle of Colenso and during the rest of the war. He visited England in 1902.

Condition is Very Good, with a Filmoplast tape repair to the Left Margin.