GC36578 JHB SNS - Jan Smuts (Traditional Cache) in Gauteng, South Africa created by Villiagegoers

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Hidden : 10/17/2011

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JHB Street Name Series #1 - Jan Smuts Avenue

Passing through Milner Park, Parktown, Saxonwold, Forest Town, Westcliff, Parkwood, Rosebank, Parktown North and Dunkeld West.
The United Transvaal Directory, 1908, Lists Old Pretoria Road in Braamfontein and Westcliff, and refers from Old Pretoria Road to Cambridge Road, Parktown.
In 1936, according to Arnold Black stated that the road known as Jan Smuts Ave was the original mail-coach route and was known as the ‘Old Pretoria Road’ until WW1.
Years back, In 1917, the Federation of Ratepayers Assoc. suggested that this be renamed (along with General Botha) to General Smuts – as a record of appreciation to the Empire during the war.

Only in 1968 did the Council decide in principle to rename the portion of the Old Pretoria Road, Jan Smuts.

4th Prime Minister of South Africa

Jan Christiaan Smuts, (24 May 1870 – 11 September 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various cabinet posts, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. He served in the First World War and as a British field marshal [1] in the Second World War.

Since earlier in his life and for most of his political life, Smuts believed in racial separation. Much later on in his life, Smuts went on to lead his government to issue the Fagan Report, which stated that complete racial segregation in South Africa was not practical and that restrictions on African migration into urban areas should be abolished. In this, the government was opposed by a majority of Afrikaners under the political leadership of the National Party who wished to deepen segregation and formalise it into a system of apartheid. This opposition contributed to his narrow loss in the 1948 general election. He was notable as one of the few South African politicians of the time who believed that blacks had the potential to be equals to the whites through the embrace of European culture and morals.

He led commandos in the Second Boer War for the Transvaal. During the First World War, he led the armies of South Africa against Germany, capturing German South-West Africa and commanding the British Army in East Africa. From 1917 to 1919, he was also one of five members of the British War Cabinet, helping to create the Royal Air Force. He became a field marshal in the British Army in 1941, and served in the Imperial War Cabinet under Winston Churchill. He was the only person to sign the peace treaties ending both the First and Second World Wars.

One of his greatest international accomplishments was the establishment of the League of Nations, the exact design and implementation of which relied upon Smuts.[2] He later urged the formation of a new international organisation for peace: the UN. Smuts wrote the preamble to the United Nations Charter, and was the only person to sign the charters of both the League of Nations and the UN. He sought to redefine the relationship between the United Kingdom and her colonies, helping to establish the British Commonwealth, as it was known at the time. However, in 1946 the General Assembly requested the Smuts government to take measures to bring the treatment of Indians in South Africa into line with the provisions of the United Nations Charter.[3]

In 2004 he was named by voters in a poll held by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (S.A.B.C.) as one of the top ten Greatest South Africans of all time. The final positions of the top ten were to be decided by a second round of voting, but the programme was taken off the air due to political controversy, and Nelson Mandela was given the number one spot based on the first round of voting. In the first round, Field Marshal Smuts came ninth.[4]

Source : Wiki, Anna Smith

The difficulty is high - due to the nature of an extremely high muggle area. I have tried to make this series as family friendly as possible.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Nobir lbh. Ybbx ohfl naq srry nebhaq.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)