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F. Watermeyer">E. F. Watermeyer</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet</b>, <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_(United_Kingdom)" title="Privy Council (United Kingdom)">PC</a>, <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Counsel" title="King's Counsel">QC</a> (11 September 1873 – 16 March 1960) was a South African politician, lawyer, and judge who was <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_South_Africa" title="Chief Justice of South Africa">Chief Justice of South Africa</a> and acting <a href="/wiki/Governor_General_of_the_Union_of_South_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor General of the Union of South Africa">Governor-General</a> from 1943 to 1945. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicolaas_Jacobus_de_Wet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>De Wet was born and went to school in Aliwal North, and attended <a href="/wiki/Victoria_College,_Stellenbosch" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria College, Stellenbosch">Victoria College</a> in <a href="/wiki/Stellenbosch" title="Stellenbosch">Stellenbosch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then went to <a href="/wiki/Downing_College,_Cambridge" title="Downing College, Cambridge">Downing College</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>, from which he earned his <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Laws" title="Bachelor of Laws">LLB</a> (First Class, with the Chancellor's Medal) in 1895. He was admitted as an <a href="/wiki/Advocate" title="Advocate">advocate</a> (the South African equivalent of a <a href="/wiki/Barrister" title="Barrister">barrister</a>) in 1896.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Boer_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Boer War">Anglo-Boer War</a> he was military secretary to General <a href="/wiki/Louis_Botha" title="Louis Botha">Louis Botha</a>, commandant-general of the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Republic" title="South African Republic">Transvaal</a> forces, and acted as an interpreter at the peace conference that ended the war in 1902. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicolaas_Jacobus_de_Wet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the war, de Wet joined Botha in politics, and was a member of the Transvaal legislative assembly from 1907 to 1910. He was a legal adviser to the Transvaal delegation to the 1908-1909 <a href="/wiki/National_Convention_(South_Africa)" title="National Convention (South Africa)">National Convention</a> that drew up the <a href="/wiki/South_Africa_Act_1909" title="South Africa Act 1909">Constitution</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa" title="Union of South Africa">Union of South Africa</a>. In 1913, he was appointed a <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Counsel" title="King's Counsel">King's Counsel</a>. He was also a founder member of the <a href="/wiki/Suid-Afrikaanse_Akademie_vir_Wetenskap_en_Kuns" title="Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns">Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns</a> ("South African Academy for Science and Art") in 1909. </p><p>De Wet was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_South_Africa" title="Parliament of South Africa">Union Parliament</a> between 1913 and 1929, serving as a member of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Assembly_of_South_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Assembly of South Africa">House of Assembly</a> from 1913 to 1920 and a <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_South_Africa" title="Senate of South Africa">Senator</a> from 1920 to 1929. He served in the <a href="/wiki/South_African_Party" title="South African Party">South African Party</a> government as Minister of Justice from 1913 to 1924. As such, he had to deal with the legal aspects of an armed <a href="/wiki/Afrikaner" class="mw-redirect" title="Afrikaner">Afrikaner</a> uprising against the government in 1914, and the 1922 <a href="/wiki/Rand_Revolt" class="mw-redirect" title="Rand Revolt">Rand Revolt</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Judicial_career">Judicial career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicolaas_Jacobus_de_Wet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Judicial career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>De Wet was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court in 1932, a judge of the Appeal Court in 1937, and Chief Justice in 1939. As Chief Justice, he was required <i>ex officio</i> to act as <a href="/wiki/Officer_Administering_the_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer Administering the Government">Officer Administering the Government</a> under a <a href="/wiki/Dormant_commission" title="Dormant commission">dormant commission</a>, in the absence of the Governor-General, which he did for two and a half years, from the death of <a href="/wiki/Sir_Patrick_Duncan" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Patrick Duncan">Sir Patrick Duncan</a> in 1943 and the appointment of <a href="/wiki/Gideon_Brand_van_Zyl" title="Gideon Brand van Zyl">Gideon Brand van Zyl</a> in 1945. </p><p>He was appointed a member of the <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Privy Council of the United Kingdom">Privy Council of the United Kingdom</a> in 1939. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_life">Family life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicolaas_Jacobus_de_Wet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Family life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>De Wet was married twice. His first wife was <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ella_Scheepers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ella Scheepers (page does not exist)">Ella Scheepers</a>, who is reputed to have composed the popular Afrikaans song <i><a href="/wiki/Sarie_Marais" title="Sarie Marais">Sarie Marais</a></i> during the Anglo-Boer War. His second wife was <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jakomina_du_Toit&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jakomina du Toit (page does not exist)">Jakomina du Toit</a>. He died in 1960. His son by his first marriage, Dr. <a href="/wiki/Quartus_de_Wet" title="Quartus de Wet">Quartus de Wet</a>, was also a judge, and presided over the <a href="/wiki/Rivonia_Trial" title="Rivonia Trial">1963 Rivonia Treason Trial</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a> and other anti-<a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">apartheid</a> activists. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicolaas_Jacobus_de_Wet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGirvin1996" class="citation book cs1">Girvin, Stephen D. 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Clarendon. p. 125. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-826087-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-826087-5"><bdi>978-0-19-826087-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Southern+Cross%3A+Civil+Law+and+Common+Law+in+South+Africa&rft.pages=125&rft.pub=Clarendon&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=978-0-19-826087-5&rft.aulast=Girvin&rft.aufirst=Stephen+D.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSErIoCP9knIC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANicolaas+Jacobus+de+Wet" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFACADD893NJ" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=D893NJ&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50">"De Wet, Nicholas Jacobus (D893NJ)"</a>. <i>A Cambridge Alumni Database</i>. 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