|Birthplace:||Wellington, Cape Province, South Africa| |Managed
by:||Zoe Jeffery| About James Barry Munnik Hertzog James Barry
Munnik Hertzog, better known as J. B. M. Hertzog (3 April 1866
near Wellington, Cape Colony – 21 November 1942 in Pretoria,
Union of South Africa) was a Boer general during the second
Anglo-Boer War who later went on to become Prime Minister of the
Union of South Africa from 1924 to 1939. Throughout his life he
encouraged the development of the Afrikaner culture, determined
to protect the Afrikaner from British influence. He is named
after Dr. James Barry who performed the first successful
cesarean section in Africa by a British surgeon, in which both
the mother and child survived the operation. In 2007 a building
was built in Paarl and named after him to honor his
legacy.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_Munnik_Hertzog
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Munnik Hertzog James Barry Munnik Hertzog (1866-1942) was a
South African soldier and political lea