Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.			Statue of Christiaan de Wet Bloemfontein, Free State Coert STEYNBERG: Sculptor Chrysostomos Savonarola DANEEL: Architect

Date: 1954 Type: Statue Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 29°06'55.19" S 26°13'02.96" E Alt: 1389m

Christiaan Rudolf de Wet (7 October 1854 – 3 February 1922) was a Boer general, rebel leader and politician. He was born on the Leeuwkop farm, in the district of Smithfield in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State.[2] He later resided at Dewetsdorp, named after his father, Jacobus Ignatius de Wet. (Wikipedia) Transcript of plaque: HIERDIE STANDBEELD VAN GENERAAL DE WET IS ONTHUL OP SY 100E VERJAARSDAG 7 OKTOBER 1954 DEUR SY SEUN IZAK Translation: THIS STATUE OF GENERAL DE WET WAS UNVEILED ON HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY 7 OCTOBER 1954 BY HIS SON IZAK