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Afrikaans: Christiaan de Wet (1854–1922), Boeregeneraal, politikus en rebelleleier. Die foto is geneem in Potchefstroom op die 27ste Augustus 1900, ses dae nadat hy en sy kommando van 246 manne 'n bykanse omsingeling noord van die Magaliesberg vrygespring het. Hy sit met 'n geweer wat deur die burgers herstel is nadat dit deur een van baie hensoppers by die Engelse ingelewer is om vernietig te word. Dit is gewoonlik gedoen sodat hulle eiendom en plase gespaar sal bly. De Wet het oor hierdie foto geskryf:
  Potchefstroom was op daardie tydstip nie in die hande van die Engelse nie. Ek het na die dorp oorgery, en dit was toe dat die bekende foto van my geneem is met 'n Mauser in die hand, wat oral versprei is. Ek vermeld dit net om die aandag te vestig op die verhaal van die vuurwapen waarmee ek uitgebeeld is. En dit is naamlik:– Toe die vyand deur Potchefstroom getrek het op pad na Pretoria het hulle 'n garnisoen agtergelaat, en baie burgers het daarheen gegaan om hulle vuurwapens op te gee, wat vervolgens op 'n hoop verbrand is. Die burgers het teruggekeer toe die garnisoen die dorp verlaat. Onder hulle was daar eniges wat aan die werk gespring het om kolwe te maak vir die gewere wat verbrand is. "Hierdie geweer," is ek vertel deur die man wat dit aan my gewys het, "is die tweehonderdste wat uit die verbrande hoop geneem en herstel is." Dit het so 'n indruk op my gemaak dat ek dit in my hand geneem het, en my daarmee laat afneem het. Dit spyt my net dat ek nie die name kan noem van die burgers wat daardie werk verrig het nie. Hulle name is waardig om ingeskryf te word in die annale van ons volk.
English: Christiaan De Wet (1854–1922), Boer general, politician and rebel leader. The photo was taken in Potchefstroom on the 27th of August 1900, six days after he and his commando of 246 men escaped from near encirclement north of the Magaliesberg. He is posing with a restored rifle that was handed in to the English by one of many "hensoppers". This was usually done in return for having their property and farms spared by the enemy. De Wet wrote of this photo:
  Potchefstroom was not at that time in the hands of the English. I rode over to the town, and then it was that the well-known photo was taken of me that has been spread about everywhere, in which I am represented with a Mauser in my hand. I only mention this so as to draw attention to the history of the weapon which I held in my hand. It is as follows:– When the enemy passed through Potchefstroom on their way to Pretoria, they left a garrison behind them, and many burghers went there to give up their arms, which forthwith were burnt in a heap. When the garrison left the dorp the burghers returned. Amongst them were some who set to work to make butts for the rifles that had been burnt. "This rifle," I was told by the man who showed it to me, "is the two hundredth that has been taken out of the burnt heap and repaired." This made such an impression on me that I took it in my hand, and had my photo taken with it. I am only sorry that I cannot mention the names of the burghers who did that work. Their names are worthy to be enrolled on the annals of our nation.
Date circa 1900
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Reinhold Thiele  (1856–1921)  wikidata:Q20950073
 
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Karl Anton Reinhold Thiele; Karl August Reinhold Thiele
Description German photographer, painter, watercolorist and photojournalist
Date of birth/death 1856 Edit this at Wikidata 1921 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Hamelin Edit this at Wikidata
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General Christaan de Wet posing with a restored Mauser rifle in Potchefstroom, South African Republic, during the Second Boer War

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