Жубер, Петрус Якобус цитаты
Жубер, Петрус Якобус
Дата рождения: 20. Январь 1834
Дата смерти: 28. Март 1900
Пе́трус Яко́бус Жубе́р — политический деятель и коммандант-генерал Республики Трансвааль.
Цитаты Жубер, Петрус Якобус
„Why were the people not shot dead when they arrived at the first laager?“
The Last Boer War, H. Rider Haggard, p. 237
Vicinity of Lang’s Nek, February 1881. From a statement made in Newcastle by the hottentot driver, Allan Smith, who quoted a certain Viljoen, who would have quoted Joubert. Haggard and Fitzpatrick used his statement to implicate Joubert in the murder of Dr. Barber and wounding of Mr. Walter Dyas, who arrived without prior arrangement in a boer camp during the First Boer War.
Добавить примечание: (nl) Waarom was de mensche niet doodgeschiet toen hulle bijde eerste laager gekom het?
„The heart of my soul is bloody with sorrow. … (Nonverbatim: I have done my utmost for peace, despite England pushing the Boers out of their inheritance bit by bit, and taking advantage of us in every conference and native war. My hope till the present war had been for a South African Confederacy under English protection – the Cape, Natal, Free State and Transvaal all having equal rights and local self-government.) … But now we can only leave it to God. If it is His will that the Transvaal perish, we can only do our best.“
The Diary of a Siege, 1900, H.W. Nevinson.
In conversation with Henry Nevinson, October 2, 1899, at the outbreak of war. According to Nevinson, Joubert spoke English with a "piquant lack of grammar and misuse of words".
„They [the field cornets] should have seen to it that the bible be used in schools, as the law prescribes.“
Thomas Francois Burgers, MS Appelgryn, 1979, p. 62
:In 1874, in reply to a controversy which arose due to remaining influence of the state church (Hervormde Kerk) in ZAR schools, which for the first time were not state controlled
Добавить примечание: (nl) Gezien hebben dat de bijbel in de Scholen moet gebruikt worden, zooals de wet voorschrijft.