Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894%E2%80%931948)

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr was a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding Apartheid. In his lifetime he was regarded as one of the cleverest men in the country, and it was widely expected that he would eventually become Prime Minister of South Africa. He came from a wellknown Afrikaner family his uncle, also Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, but known affectionately as Onze Jan among fellow Afrikaners, was a famous figure in the Afrikaans language movement.

Hofmeyr was born in Cape Town onMarch 1894. He was baptised Jan Frederick Hendrik Hofmeyr, but the middlename Frederick fell into disuse very quickly. Later in his life he would be known to many as Hoffie, this diminutive form of his surname even being used in cartoons of Hofmeyr published in South African newspapers.

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