J C Smuts Museum

The Jan Smuts Museum is in the house called Smut Cottage, the cottage is situated in the area called Bovenplaas,( upper farm) the high-lying part of the original farm Ongegund. This was the birthplace of General Jan Christiaan Smuts on the 24th of May 1870. General Jan Smuts served as a Boer General during the Boer War, a British General during the First World War and was appointed Field Marshal by King George VI during the Second World War. He served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948 and made significant contributions towards the creation of the League of Nations and the United Nations and also helped redefine the relationships that led to the formation of the British Commonwealth. The building was proclaimed as a national monument in 1975