found: Dictionary of African Biography, accessed June 08, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Botha, Louis; political figure, prime minister, foreign military official, farmer; born 27 September 1862 in Greytown, South Africa; district field-cornet or militia official for Vryheid when the short-lived New Republic was incorporated into the South African Republic or Transvaal (1888); Vryheid representative in the South African Republic's Volksraad or parliament (1896); assumed the command of the Vryheid force and was appointed general, eventually rising to Commandant-General (1900's); in the middle of many of the war's decisive engagements, including the Battle of Spioenkop; championed a settlement with Britain; founded Het Volk, a reconciliatory Afrikaner party committed to unified white self-government of South Africa (1904); backed by English-speaking allies, became prime minister of the Transvaal (1907); first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, forming the South African Party with Jan Smuts (1910); died in September 1919 in Rusthof, Transvaal, South Africa)