AANSPRAAK VAN ZHEd. S. J. P. KRUGER, Staatspresident op Dingaansdag, 16 December 1896

Very rare, a valuable historical reference, being the speech (full transcription by W. J. Fockens) delivered by State President Paul Kruger in 1896 at Paardekraal, against the background of rising tensions with the British Empire and in run-up to the Anglo-Boer War.  Paardekraal (Krugersdorp) was the venue for festivities observed every five years in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) around the Day of the Covenant.

Published ca 1896, Buckley en Van Duyn, Drukkers, Pretoria.  Fourteen page booklet, original staple binding intact.

Quoted from Paul Kruger en die pers in die ZAR, 18901895, Heinie Heydenrych: 'Omdat die Republiek se onafhanklikheid so sentraal in Kruger se denke gestaan het, sou die aantasting daarvan in sy oë feitlik heiligskennis wees. Dit blyk daaruit dat hy soms in toesprake na die Godsvolk verwys het. Dit was veral die geval in sy Geloftedagtoesprake, ook bekend as Paardekraaltoesprake .. in 1896 se toespraak [De Volksstem, 19 Desember 1896, Dingaansdag] verklaar hy: God heeft u de vrijheid gegeven en gij heeft mij gekozen als hoof van den Staat'.

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