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Blignaut was a member from an old Cape family, the son of
Johannes Jeremias Cornelis Blignaut and Johanna Emerentia de Villiers. He was named after his grandfather Pieter Jeremias Blignaut, a
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where affairs of the state were concerned. In view of all these qualities, Blignaut was the natural candidate to fill the position of
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and the civil servants, who showed their high regard at his 30-year jubilee, in 1892. Blignaut also had the full confidence of the
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with clothes, and later also to look after the welfare of the women and children in the
British concentration camps.
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defence, and the formulation of clear regulations for the different
Volunteer Corps, which were administered by the
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for twenty-one years, first through a period of growing economic prosperity for the country, and then through the
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with a
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His wife, C.J. Steyn, was also active in the war. She set up a Ladies' Committee, initially to supply Boer
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he worked with. The length of his tenure made that he became one of the most knowledgeable persons in the
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on 31 May 1902, Blignaut quickly adapted to the new political situation. Where his counterpart in the
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died in April 1879, Blignaut was asked to fill the position and was appointed as such by the
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on 25 October 1866 and another four years later, on 28 September 1870 he was transferred to
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