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Date: n.d. Type: Memorial Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 25°53'16.07" S 28°14'26.53" E Alt: 1511m

Obelisk built in memory of Jan Christian SMUTS. A commemorative booklet was published shortly after Jan Smuts passed away with numerous photographs illustrating key moments in his military and political career. The rear cover of the booklet [see image] has a photograph of the memorial obelisk erected close to his house in Irene. The caption to the photograph has been transcribed below LAST OUTSPAN The ashes of General Smuts were strewn on September 24 on this hallowed ground on a 300 ft high koppie, a mile from the homestead at Doornkloof, Irene, where a monolith was erected by the Smuts family to the memory of General and Mrs. Smuts's son, Japie, and three other of their children who died in their infancy at the beginning of the century. Their ashes have also been strewn on this koppie. Reference: SALUTE to a Great South African JAN CHRISTIAAN SMUTS MAY 24, 1870 - SEPTEMBER 11, 1950. Cape Times Limited, Parow, Central News Agency, Ltd. 1950 64pp (Submitted by William Martinson)