3-070-601 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Member of the Transvaal Provisional Government - M. P. J. Joubert, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. J. E. Bruton, of one of '...the three leading Dutch citizens of the Transvaal selected by their fellow-countrymen on Dec. 15 to form a Provisional Government during the struggle for national independence which has just begun...before the British annexation of the Transvaal, in April, 1877, [he] had held high office in what was then styled the South African Republic...Mr. Petrus Jacobus Joubert, who is one of an old French Huguenot family, long settled in South Africa, had also been Vice-President and Acting State President. He is not the same Mr. Joubert who commanded the Boers in the recent conflict of Dec. 20 with the detachment of the 94th Regiment, but we believe he is a near relation. He and Mr. Krüger, forming the second Transvaal Delegation, set out on May 10, 1878, saw Sir Bartle Frere at Capetown on their way hither, and begged his friendly co-operation...They wrote to Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, and had an interview and some further correspondence with him. This has now been reprinted, from the Bluebooks of that year, by the "Transvaal Independence Committee".' From "Illustrated London News", 1881.