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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398612" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Johanna Brandt</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To me Johanna Brandt is a prime example<br>of such a person, who were clinging<br>to her integrity and bravely lived<br>to what she thought was right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was the daughter <br>of the well known reformed minister<br>Nicolaas Jacobus van Warmelo<br>who played a leading role <br>during the first Anglo-Boer war</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that came to an end <br>with the Boer victory at Majuba hill.<br>Johanna had a beautiful <br>soprano voice and got music instruction</div><div style="margin:10px 0">form a Mrs Uggla, <br>(a Swedish music teacher) , <br>and used to sing the solo parts<br>at choir performances.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While living on a prime estate called<br>Harmonie in Pretoria, the family <br>were friends with President Paul Kruger, <br>general Piet Joubert and his wife<br>and dr. W.J. Leyds (the secretary of state) .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On Harmonie there was an abundance <br>of willow trees where it was situated<br>near to the Apies River<br>and Zuid-Afrikaansce republic<br>government buildings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">During the Jameson raid, <br>Johanna was visiting her uncle<br>in Florida (near to Johannesburg) <br>and at the time when this trouble</div><div style="margin:10px 0">was at its worst<br>she by herself rode by horse<br>all the way back<br>to her home in Pretoria.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While studying music in Germany in 1897<br>Johanna fell in love <br>with the reformed minister Louis Ernest Brandt<br>whom she met in the Netherlands</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who was a rowing champion of Holland<br>and a well build good looking man, <br>but Johanna returned to live in Pretoria<br>and was there <br>when the British invaded that city<br>living on the Harmonie estate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thousands of British soldiers<br>marched hungry and tired<br>into Pretoria, dressed in kaki<br>and were dirty from the travelling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The British soldiers came to a halt <br>in front of the open square <br>near to the government buildings<br>and on command sat down on the ground</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some started eating the rations<br>that they were carrying along, <br>some immediately started sleeping<br>and one looked up into the face<br>of the young girl saying: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Thank God, the war is over, &quot;<br>but with a voice full of feeling<br>Johanna replied: <br>&quot;Tommy Atkins, the war has only just begun! &quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were some soldiers camping<br>on the grounds at Harmonie, <br>Lord Kitchener had his headquarters<br>right next door</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and till the end of the war<br>she never had a moment of peace<br>but this did not bother Johanna<br>as she and her mother</div><div style="margin:10px 0">became spies for the Boer leaders<br>and by love letters to Louis Ernest Brandt<br>Johanna was sending coded messages<br>to President Paul Kruger in the Netherlands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Johanna even smuggled explosives<br>and explosive fuses <br>into that part of Pretoria<br>which was occupied by the British<br>that was concealed <br>in a lady's hat box<br>and the British officer<br>did not even realise that the hat case<br>was quite heavy for such a slender girl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A message to the paper &quot;Review of Reviews, &quot;<br>about the inhuman conditions <br>in the Irene concentration camp<br>where Johanna was working as a nurse<br>was smuggled in a cacao tin<br>all the way to Great Britain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On her way to be married<br>in the Netherlands Johanna travelled by ship<br>and while the British people aboard<br>were celebrating and partying after their victory<br>and the peace of Vereeniging </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Johanna kept to her cabin, <br>as she only felt the bitterness and pain<br>of a nation whose farms, towns<br>and women and children<br>were destroyed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She could not shake off <br>the wasted children, <br>in the Irene concentration camp<br>the cruelty of the British doctors, <br>the cold bloodedness <br>of the British soldiers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She got married to Louis Brandt in Arnhem, <br>convinced her new husband<br>to come to South Africa<br>where her country, and people</div><div style="margin:10px 0">after war was living in poverty<br>and where he was a reformed minister<br>and eventually for about twenty years<br>the moderator of the reformed church.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Johanna was diagnosed <br>with stomach cancer<br>from the results of X-rays<br>and in 1917</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the doctor wanted to do an operation, <br>but Johanna decided not to have the operation<br>and to stick to her principles <br>of a natural cure by eating grapes, <br>drinking only water and milk<br>and trusting in the power of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The doctor gave her only weeks to live<br>but she kept to what she did believe<br>and was totally cured living<br>another forty-seven years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While her husband was moderator<br>of the Dutch reformed church<br>Johanna claimed to have been visited<br>by a angel from God <br>and by the Lord Jesus Christ himself, <br>she did believe to have had some visions<br>about the need of her Afrikaner people</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to convert from their sinful ways, <br>that the second coming of Christ<br>was drawing closer<br>and that He had chosen </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Afrikaner people, <br>and was coming back<br>to establish his kingdom<br>right here in South Africa.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She prophesied about a coming<br>world wide time of great tribulation<br>and the Dutch reformed faith<br>ignored what she was saying, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">publishers did not want to publish<br>her book called the millennium, <br>which she published at her own cost<br>and she was mocked</div><div style="margin:10px 0">by the newspapers, <br>by the political parties<br>and her warnings <br>to the South African tribal people<br>which she translated <br>into their indigenous languishes<br>was totally ignored by them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and although she did not know<br>visionary Nicolaas Van Rensburg<br>while they were living <br>at the same time, <br>some of her predictions<br>run hand in hand to his.</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>
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