The Christian Express
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Date
1913
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University of Fort Hare
Abstract
The newspaper of Monday the 16th ult. brought the surprising news to their readers throughout South Africa that the Cabinet crisis, of which there had been reports at the close of the preceding week, but which the public had not been inclined to take too seriously, had led to the resignation on Saturday forenoon, the 14th, of General Botha; and that the Governor-General had accepted his resignation and had invited him to form a new administration. This step is immediately connected with the resignation of Colonel Leuchars on the previous day and is commonly attributed to difficulties arising out of undue pressing on the part of General Hertzog, and possibly of his supporters, of the line of policy with which his name has been specially identified.