<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398064" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gideon Scheepers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There’s a Boer commandant<br>that proofs himself at Magersfontein<br>and help to beat the British there<br>and at Paardeberg on horseback, <br>rides right through them<br>and they cannot touch him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When his commando <br>enters the Cape Colony <br>rail tracts are blown away<br>and British trains stand and wait<br>and there are many Cape Boers<br>that joins him <br>to fight against<br>the overwhelming British might.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The British give guns<br>to the black population<br>and send them to farmsteads<br>to murder women and children<br>and to rape<br>and to Gideon Scheepers it’s more than enough<br>and it hits him like a hammer blow<br>and every black man <br>that his commando catches carrying a firearm<br>is hanged.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then it happens<br>that the British find Gideon Scheepers <br>lying ill in the field<br>and they execute him<br>and somewhere in the field<br>he is pushed into an unmarked grave<br>and even today<br>nobody knows where<br>Gideon Scheepers lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: The rank of Commandant is equivalent to that of Lieutenant-Colonel. The heroic story of Gideon Scheepers during the second Anglo-Boer war.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398064" data-title="Gideon Scheepers de Gert Strydom" data-description="There’s a Boer commandant that proofs himself at Magersfontein and help to beat the British there and at Paardeberg on horseback, rides right through them and they cannot touch him. When his commando enters the Cape Colony rail tracts are bl..."></div> </div> </div>

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