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English: President en:Paul Kruger of the en:South African Republic (left) leaving Delagoa Bay, Mozambique on 20 October 1900 aboard en:HNLMS Gelderland (1898), looking back towards the shore. He spent the rest of his life in exile in Europe and never saw South Africa again. His biographer Johannes Meintjes calls this "one of the most striking and moving photographs ever taken of President Paul Kruger." The man on the right is Manie Bredell, who served as the President's private secretary for the rest of his life. Kruger died in Switzerland in 1904.
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Source Scanned from Meintjes, Johannes (1974). President Paul Kruger: A Biography (First ed.). London: Cassell. ISBN 9780304294237. Between pages 192 and 193. Source given as "Nat. Cult. Hist. Museum", presumably the National Cultural History Museum in Pretoria, South Africa.
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