Wildebeesthoek, Pretoria District, South African Republic[1]
Died
20 December 1914(1914-12-20) (aged 35)
Pretoria Central Prison, Pretoria, South Africa
Cause of death
Execution by firing squad
Occupation(s)
Scout, dispatch rider
Spouse
Susanna Elizabeth Carolina Engelmohr (m. 1903)
Josef Johannes "Jopie" Fourie (27 August 1879 – 20 December 1914) was a Boer soldier. A scout and dispatch rider during the Boer War, he later took part in the Maritz Rebellion of 1914–1915 against General Louis Botha, the then Prime Minister of South Africa, and was executed by firing squad.
Josef Johannes "Jopie" Fourie (27 August 1879 – 20 December 1914) was a Boer soldier. A scout and dispatch rider during the Boer War, he later took part...
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Central Prison. Jeremy Cronin - writer, poet, and anti-apartheid activist. JopieFourie - Afrikaner nationalist, shot at Pretoria Central Prison for his role...
include the Felix Lategan gun collection and a Vierkleur flag carried by JopieFourie. The Koeksistermonument, erected in 2003, celebrates the women who baked...
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to Angola before returning to South Africa to serve three years. Only JopieFourie, a rebel who had not resigned his military commission, was executed for...
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Smith, Johannes Anthonie (1917). Brit en Boer (van Slagtersnek tot JopieFourie).: Uit die geskiedenis van die laaste honderd jaar. 1814-1915 (in Dutch)...
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