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Maritz Rebellion

1914–1915 · 20th century · Part of the First World War

The Maritz Rebellion was a rising of Afrikaners in 1914–1915 against the Union government's decision to invade German South West Africa on Britain's side in the First World War. Led by Manie Maritz, Christiaan de Wet, Christiaan Beyers and Jan Kemp, some 12,000 rebels took up arms but were defeated by government forces under Louis Botha by early 1915. One rebel officer, Jopie Fourie, was executed.

Maritz Rebellion
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Maritz Rebellion. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/maritz-rebellion
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