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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon BOTHA, Louis Botha, the Honourable General Born: 1862 09 27 Died: 1919 08 27 Honorary President of the TIA Louis Botha was an Afrikaner and first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa—the forerunner of the modern South African state. A Boer war hero during the Second Boer War he would eventually fight to have South Africa join Britain as a member of the Dominion. Elected Honorary President of the TIA at the Annual General meeting of the TIA on 1916 08 24 (Jnl ATA 1916 1(3):33) [Wikipedia]