My father was exempted from military service because at the time he was a student in Berlin University, there was a law that any student who passed the high examination of the University would be exempted from conscription. My father could speak G European languages besides the Sesotho. He was very good in shorthand writing. President Paul Kruger was very friendly with my father, every time there was a High Court Case he used to call my father to interpret or to take shorthand notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Volgens Z\u00f6llner en Heese, was Johannes August Winter ‘n buitengewoon skrander student wat op aanbeveling van Dr. J.A. Dorner, dekaan van die fakulteit Teologie aan die Universiteit van Berlyn, gratis opleiding as Teoloog ontvang het. Toe hy sy loopbaan as Teoloog in 1873 op Botshabelo begin het was hy die enigste opgeleide Teoloog van die Berlynse Sendinggenootskap in die ZAR.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Die volgende publikasies van J A Winter het in die gemelde eksemplare van die S A Journal of Science verskyn:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tradition of Rahlolo No IX (1912)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hymns in Praise of famous Chiefs No IX (1912)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n History of Sekwati No IX (1912)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Phallus Cult among the Bantu especially the Bapedi of Eastern Transvaal No X (1913)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Native Medicines No XI (1914)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Mental and Moral Capabilities of Natives No XI(1914) – CTW<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My father was exempted from military service because at the time he was a student in Berlin University, there was a law that any student who passed the high examination of the University would be exempted from conscription. My father could speak G European languages besides the Sesotho. He was very good in shorthand writing.… Continue reading Military service<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpd.theoandkai.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}