Christiaan Rudolph de Wet 1854-1922 [1982 Afrikaans Documentary]

[@gertvanniekerk46]

Please the Boers did not fight a 'Guerrilla' war! In the early stages we fought set battles Won 87% of these until our artillery ammunition ran out and the english empire pumped in hundreds of thousands of soldiers and millions of tons of materials. Guerrilla warfare was used by the Spanish in the Napoleonic wars to snipe at the French. As general Christian de Wet stated "If we were gorrillas, the gorrilas made a mockery of english military superiority"! General de Wet formulated 'Kommando Warfare' and our Fore fathers then used it!

[@paulavanwyk3128]

Die beste generaal wat suid afrika ooit gehad het

[@hawkeye-vv4kb]

Oom Coenraad Cronje 1:40 , het ek in persoon geken. Ek sien die onderhoud is op sy erf in Memel gedoen waar ons (ek en my ouers) verkeie kersfeeste deurgebring het. Oom Coen is baie jare gelede begrawe op sy plaas, Koolhoek.

[@degman00]

English sub please, thanks.

[@jwhiskey242]

Should have learned Afrikaans when I was young.

[@PunkDogCreations]

It is never too late. KZbin has many videos to help you.

[@gertvanniekerk46]

Please translate to english I am an Afrikaner but respect those who want to know more?

[@ack0078]

Saluut Generaal De Wet! Die GROOTSTE AFRIKANER wat ooit geleef het! Nie een van ons is jou skaduwee werd nie! Hulle is groot en diep, maar In jou voedspore sal ons stap.

[@lenarddurand9833]

Na hierdie donker tyd waar `n klomp narre en papbroeke voorloop, sal die ware leiers weer opstaan. Die volgende geslag sal weer die helde se stories ken en hul standbeelde oprig. Hierdie tyd van donker is nodig om kaf van koring te skei. Soos Gnl de Wet gese het: Ek staan liewers met my eie mense op `n mishoop as in a glansende paleis onder vreemdelinge.

[@hanomusic6052]

Respekt vor dem großen Weißen Buren De Vet..Er hat uns den Weg gezeigt. Jakob aus Griechenland.

[@IC-OLD]

My hart skeur en hier is die bewys dat ons nie meer 'n Afrikanerdom is nie. Lankal nie meer nie! 😔 Ons het ons eie mense uitgelewer... 😭

[@coenraadkruger366]

Hy was n yster

[@Johnny-Thunder]

Er staat een standbeeld van generaal de Wet hier in Nederland, in het natuurgebied wat hij bezocht en hem zo aan Afrika deed denken.

[@Shack01]

my groot groot groot groot oupa paul kruger is ook by jul dood

[@Johnny-Thunder]

@@Shack01 Het hoofd van Paul Kruger staat in de sokkel van dat beeld, samen met Martin Steyn.

[@Shack01]

@@Johnny-Thunder Maak myn Volk se hart baie warm om te weet nie almal haat ons nie. My oom daai tyd was groot oorloe held Sarel Johannes Eloff sy broer ook so en kan myn familie volg tot by 1759 aangeland by Kaap de goeie hoop.

[@Shack01]

@@Johnny-Thunder genza.org.za/index.php/en/herald-nw-genealogy-series/672-ontmoet-die-familie-eloff

[@Shack01]

@@Johnny-Thunder my ander Oupa was Generaal Roux.. vandag nog my van

[@stephandeswardt5802]

Dankie vir die behoud v hierdie kosbare materiaal.

[@IC-OLD]

So mooi huldeblyk. Dankie vir die kosbare video! 🤗

[@JacobusCoetzee-qz2pl]

My oupa het as jong man self in die Rebellie deelgeneem. Soos my eie pa gesê het sy oorlede pa het as seun op kommando gegaan en as n man terug gekom

[@monicavanrensburg7579]

Trots om te kan se dit was my ouma se oupa.

[@Shack01]

Pres Kruger my gggggg oupa.. getroud met gezina Eloff hul kinders was jan eloff en sarel johannes eloff wat slag van beset van mafikeng

[@biancataylor3670]

En my Pa se Oupa was Generaal de Wet se rapportryer.

[@ДмитрийПеров-у9ю]

Генералы -- Жубер, Кронье, Де Вет, Бота, Вильжуэн --- самые лучшие Генералы БУРСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК : TRANSVAAL und ORANJA !!!

[@fatherjack2300]

Thank you, Bruno

[@algs229635]

Put subtitles in English please, I am deaf but I can read;Blessing of BRAZIL

[@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt]

I wish i knew Afrikaans..

[@marieconstant6452]

PERE DUVALIER ?Oui !DE WET ?

[@marieconstant6452]

Ohoh Boer Soldier et and Politic ,?

[@hanoitripper1809]

Any english translation.?

[@peterrooke5336]

Yeah dit means it

[@hanoitripper1809]

@@peterrooke5336 gay

[@peterrooke5336]

@@hanoitripper1809 moffie

[@hanoitripper1809]

poef

[@Squidward]

This man is one of my ancestors I just learned

[@koosbos1114]

Vir altyd n BOER !!!!

[@okee3503]

Fun fact, this was my great great great great great great grandfather- (my real surname’s De Wet)

[@GlendaHayward]

My great great grandfather was his Uncle. As my great great grandfather was his fathers brother. My my mother's mother, my grandmother, was de Wet.

[@okee3503]

@@GlendaHayward oh my word that’s so cool, i’m a de Wet myself so i know quite a bit about my family’s history, thank you so much for sharing 🤗

[@safetyfirst1484]

Not once did these so called learned narrators mention "Siener" van Rensburg's role in advising Gen de Wet.

[@gertvanniekerk46]

Siener rode with general de la Rey-Sorry

[@matthysjuys6884]

Siener never advised de Wet

[@safetyfirst1484]

@@matthysjuys6884 On 7 December 1900, General de Wet found himself cornered against the Caledon River, which was in flood, while British forces were assailing his position. When his surrender appeared imminent, a message from De la Rey was delivered by a Boer scout. Van Rensburg had allegedly foreseen the situation and the message outlined an escape route, which was duly followed, leaving the pursuers to flounder in the torrent which De Wet had just traversed.

[@safetyfirst1484]

@@gertvanniekerk46 On 7 December 1900, General de Wet found himself cornered against the Caledon River, which was in flood, while British forces were assailing his position. When his surrender appeared imminent, a message from De la Rey was delivered by a Boer scout. Van Rensburg had allegedly foreseen the situation and the message outlined an escape route, which was duly followed, leaving the pursuers to flounder in the torrent which De Wet had just traversed.

[@safetyfirst1484]

@@gertvanniekerk46 Van Rensburg and his brother Pieter were commandeered to participate in the second Anglo-Boer War under General Sarel P. du Toit. Van Rensburg then travelled with general Piet Cronjé but escaped the encirclement by British forces at Paardeberg. Subsequently, he travelled with different commandos, where a number of apparently accurate predictions established his reputation. A report of his visions attracted the attention of General de la Rey, who recruited Van Rensburg for his commando. De la Rey, also hard pressed by his enemy, dispatched Van Rensburg to accompany President Steyn to Roodewal, De Wet's safe retreat in the northern Free State. Here Van Rensburg advised them to wait upon two horsemen which he described, who arrived the next day with a message from acting President Schalk Burger. On 13 September 1901, van Rensburg found himself in the camp of Commandant Roux at Rietkuil near Vredefort. Sensing imminent danger, he advised those present, who had just retired for the day, to depart from the camp at once. Roux was slow to take heed, and his men even more so, as scouts had not observed enemy units. Van Rensburg, his wife and children escaped on a cart, shortly before the greater part of the camp was captured in a surprise attack.