Organist and scribe [DRC Johannesburg], sub-organist [DRC Johannesburg East], later Mayor of Johannesburg and vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand.
He and his wife (Ms. Issy Krige of Stellenbosch) had moved into a modest house in Twist St. a short while before. Smuts later rose to the rank of general in the Boer army and would eventually become Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.