OBITUARY.
THE HON. JAN HOFMEYER
United Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, October 17. Jan Hofmeyer died suddenly of angina pectoris, at Whitehall Court after undergoing a cure in Germany. The body’ has been embalmed and will be interred at Cape Colony.
(The Hon. Jan H. Hofmeyer was one of the best 'known journalists and politicians among the South African Dutch, and was the leader of the Afrikander Bond, the famous political organisation of that people. He was born in 1845, and was at one time associated with the late Cecil Rhodes. After the Jamieson raid he became a strong opponent of that statesman. He acted as mediator between the British and the Boers after the war of 1881. He negotiated the Swaziland convention with the Transvaal in 1890, and went as an emissary of the Cape Government on a fruitless mission to Pretoria and Bloemfontein in July, 1899, with the object of obtaining concessions for the Uitlanders in order to prevent the Boer Republics.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2636, 19 October 1909, Page 5
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163OBITUARY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2636, 19 October 1909, Page 5
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