13 Facts About Johanna Brandt

Johanna Brandt was a South African propagandist of Afrikaner nationalism, spy during the Boer War, prophet and writer on health subjects.

Johanna Brandt's father was a Dutch Reformed minister from the Netherlands whilst her mother's family had been early emigrants to southern Africa.

Johanna Brandt was educated for two years at the Good Hope Seminary for Young Ladies in Cape Town.

At the start of the Second Boer War in 1899, Johanna Brandt volunteered along with three of her brothers.

Johanna Brandt served as a nurse until the British captured Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal.

Johanna Brandt organised women to spy on British officers and hid prisoners who were on the run.

Johanna Brandt is shown as headstrong, and she and her mother exploit the British estimation of the two Boer women as harmless.

Johanna Brandt had become so well known that messages of congratulations came from the leaders of countries.

Johanna Brandt served as secretary at the party's first congress, held in Johannesburg.

Johanna Brandt published about twenty pamphlets on the subject of natural remedies for health problems.

Johanna Brandt wrote about revelations that were allegedly made to her on the evening of her mother's death on 7 December 1917 in Pretoria.

Johanna Brandt published these prophetic revelations in a book called The Millennium in 1918.

Johanna Brandt appears on the 1.30 rand stamp together with Sol Plaatje and the Anglo-Boer War Medal.