At the Fireside--Volume 1 (2013)
“But he wisely refused and recommended Thomas Francois Burgers.
Thomas Burgers was thirty-seven, fond of music, well educated, with liberal and progressive views acquired through study and extensive travel, and happily married to a Scots lass, Mary Bryson. His only blemish was that he had fallen out with his church by saying that the Devil had no tail, but he eventually won the argument in the Cape Supreme Court and was reinstated by the Synod.
On 1 July 1872 he was sworn in as President.... He inherited a bankrupt Republic and the first of his many heroic actions was to borrow £60 000 from a Cape bank, guarantee it personally, buy up the worthless blue-back banknotes and stave off the financial crisis. But alas, this was to be one of the many instances that proved to him the truth of the old proverb that ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’.
He had passed the Education Act instituting an extensive Government Education system, the first ever in the Transvaal, introducing also non-doctrinal religious teaching.MoreLess
Thomas Burgers was thirty-seven, fond of music, well educated, with liberal and progressive views acquired through study and extensive travel, and happily married to a Scots lass, Mary Bryson. His only blemish was that he had fallen out with his church by saying that the Devil had no tail, but he eventually won the argument in the Cape Supreme Court and was reinstated by the Synod.
On 1 July 1872 he was sworn in as President.... He inherited a bankrupt Republic and the first of his many heroic actions was to borrow £60 000 from a Cape bank, guarantee it personally, buy up the worthless blue-back banknotes and stave off the financial crisis. But alas, this was to be one of the many instances that proved to him the truth of the old proverb that ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’.
He had passed the Education Act instituting an extensive Government Education system, the first ever in the Transvaal, introducing also non-doctrinal religious teaching.MoreLess
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