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Johan Zulch de Villiers
South African politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Johan Zulch de Villiers (12 July 1845 – 18 July 1910) was a South African politician and attorney. He was mayor of Johannesburg from 1897 to 1900.
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Life
Johan Zulch de Villiers was born in 1845 in Paarl, Cape Colony.[1] He was educated at the Paarl gymnasium as well as privately by Dr. Rose Innes at Cape Town.[2] For fifteen months he joined the Orange Free State forces in the Basuto Gun War.[2] He passed as an attorney and was an advocate of the High Court.[2] He then entered civil service becoming the private secretary to President Johannes Brand.[2] Between 1881 and 1897 de Villiers was the landdrost of several towns including Pretoria, Barberton and Lydenburg.[3] He also worked in Swaziland.[4] The government appointed him as the first mayor (Dutch: burgemeester)[5] of Johannesburg on 1 October 1897.[6] The first meeting of the town council was held on 4 October 1897.[7] He was the mayor until Johannesburg's surrender to Frederick Roberts on 31 May 1900 during the Second Boer War.[8][9] The British then appointed Colonel Walter Alfred John O'Meara as the new mayor and administrator of the city.[10] De Villiers died in Pretoria in 1910 at the age of 65.[11]
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Personal life
He is a member of the de Villiers family who are of French Huguenot descent.[12] On 1 November 1870 he married Susanna Margaretha de Villiers, the first cousin of John de Villiers, 1st Baron de Villiers.[2] They had 8 children: Rachel Gerhardina, Secondus Petrus, Anna Matilda, Margaretha, Johan Zulch Voight, George Ferdinan Esselen, Ludowicus van der Merwe, and Septima Elizabeth Bland.[11] His daughter Anna Matilda later married George Wreford Hudson, the master and registrar of the Swaziland court.[13]
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