KEMP – JAN CHRISTOFFEL GREYLING (JAN)
| Born: 1872/06/10 Rank: GENL. Regiment: ZAR – WESTERN FORCES (KRUGERSDORP COMMANDO) GPS: |
Reason for death: DIED Place of death: PIET RETIEF DISTRICT Date of death: 1946/12/31 Memorial: |
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GENERAL KEMP WAS ONE OF THE SIX DELEGATES WHO VOTED AGAINST TERMINATING THE WAR EFFORT, AS WELL AS THE CONTENT OF THE PEACE TERMS, AT VEREENIGING, ON 31ST MAY 1902. HE GAVE AS HIS REASONS, THE FACT THAT HIS COMMANDO HAD INSTRUCTED HIM TO DO SO, AND THAT THE DOCUMENT, AS PRESENTED, WAS VAGUE AND UNCLEAR. HE FELT THAT ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS WOULD MEAN THAT THE SUFFERING AND SACRIFICE HAD BEEN IN VAIN. HE STOOD BY THE IDEALS OF INDEPENDENCE FOR THE REPUBLICS. KEMP PARTICIPATED IN THE 1914 REBELLION, WAS CAPTURED IN 1915, SENT TO PRISON AND FINED, BUT WAS RELEASED IN NOVEMBER 1916. HIS FIRST APPOINTMENT IN THE UNION GOVERNMENT WAS AS MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE IN 1924. HE WROTE TWO BOOKS, VIR VRYHEID EN VIR REG (1941) AND DIE PAD VAN DIE VEROWERAAR (1942)
