Francis William Reitz
Former State Secretary of the South African Republic
Francis William Reitz, Jr. was a South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist, and poet who was a member of parliament of the Cape Colony, Chief Justice and fifth State President of the Orange ... Wikipedia
Born: October 5, 1844, Swellendam, South Africa
Died: March 27, 1934 (age 89 years), Cape Town, South Africa
Children: Deneys Reitz and Hjalmar Reitz
Great-grandparents: Mr. Gijsbertus Reitz, Judith Elisabeth Loogen, Aletta Catharina Hurter, and more
Previous offices: President of the Senate of the Union of South Africa (1910–1921) and State Secretary of the South African Republic (1898–1902)
Nationality: South African
Books: A Century of Wrong