Johannes Brand
Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, State President of the Orange Free State | |
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| In office 2 February 1864 – 14 July 1888 | |
| Preceded by | M.W. Pretorius |
| Succeeded by | F.W. Reitz |
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| Born | 6 December 1823 university professor |
Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, Cape legislative assembly, and Catharina Fredrica Küchler.
Johannes Brand married in 1851 to Johanna Sibella Zastron, a daughter of the Registrar of Deeds in Cape Town. The couple had 8 sons and 3 daughters.
Life history
Johannes Brand was born in
Leiden in the Netherlands, he took the degree of D.C.L. in 1845. He continued his law studies in Britain and was called to the English bar at the Inner Temple in 1849
.
After his return to South Africa, Brand settled in Cape Town, where he practised as an advocate in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope until 1863.
In 1858 Brand was appointed
Responsible Government" movement, which advocated greater independence from Britain.[2] However, finding its principles too moderate, he decided to emigrate to the Orange Free State, in solidarity with its strong republican
ideals.
He was elected president of the
Basuto on the Free State boundary, and after vainly endeavouring to induce Moshoeshoe, the Basuto chief, to keep his people within bounds, he took up arms against them in 1865. This first war ended in the Treaty of Thaba Bosigo, signed on 3 April 1866; and a second war, which ended in the Treaty of Aliwal North, concluded on 12 February 1869. In 1871 he opposed the British annexation of the town of Kimberley
without success.
In 1871, Brand was solicited by a large party to become president of the
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
.
Johannes Brand was deeply religious and irreproachable in both public and private life. He was extremely popular with the
burghers of the Orange Free State. Brand's expression "alles zal recht komen als elkeen zijn plicht doet" (all will be well if everyone does his duty) has entered the Afrikaans language as a well-known and often used saying. After his death a statue funded by public subscription was erected in Bloemfontein. The main road in the Bloemfontein city centre was named President Brand Street
in his honour.
Brand was a South African Freemason.[3]
References
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- ^ Chambers Biographical Dictionary. Chambers. 28 September 2007. p. 214.
- ^ Bond J.: They were South Africans. London: Oxford University Press. 1956. Chapter 19.
- ^ van der Merwe, J.J.P. (12 November 2013). "(Afrikaans) Vrymesselary voor die aanvang van die Suid Afrikaanse oorlog (translated: freemasonary before the start of the South African war)". Litnet. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Brand, Sir John Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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