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Item Ref# CS8217
Alles Sal Reg Kom
This mug was found in Holland and depicts the image of a Boer Commando with the popular saying "Alles Sal Reg Kom!"
Background Sir Johannes Henricus Brand, GCMG (popularly known as Jan Brand and sometimes as John Henry Brand) (6 December 1823, Cape Town – 14 July 1888, Bloemfontein) was a Boer lawyer and politician, and the fourth state president of the Orange Free State (2 February 1864 until his death in 1888). President Brand was deeply religious and irreproachable in both public and private life. He was extremely popular with the burghers of the Orange Free State. Brand's expression "alles zal recht komen als elkeen zijn plicht doet" (all will be well if everyone does his duty). After his death a statue funded by public subscription was erected in Bloemfontein. The main road in the Bloemfontein city centre was named "President Brand" in his honour. |

Colonel Murray, Captain Murray, and almost all the other officers, fell in the action, and several privates passed into the unseen world that fatal night. So terrific was the firing that entire teams of mules were shot down where they stood tied to the ropes.
As the veldt was strewn with the many wounded and the dead, we could not put the waggons on fire, lest the grass should catch fire and consume the fallen in battle. We took what we could remove and left the camp - not exactly as we found it, but a little poorer.
Pieter Hendrik Kritzinger, Boer General
Scripture |
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their servants and their people. But if you will not obey these words, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that this house shall become a desolation. Jeremiah 22:3-5 |