" Jan Smuts, the brilliant young Transvaal state attorney, wrote of Botha that he had a natural sympathy that made it possible for him to “get extremely close to others and to read their minds and divine their characters with marvellous accuracy. It gave him an intuitive power of understanding and appreciating men which was very rare.” Botha "

― Candice Millard , Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill