Botha's Hill of General Louis Botha (1862-1919), first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. Botha's Hill Botha's Hill is a small town outside Hillcrest in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the gateway to the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Kearsney College moved to Botha's Hill in 1939. Alan Paton, a famous author who wrote novels such as Cry, the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope moved here and resided here until his death on the 12th of April, 1988. He was aged 85. The village is 37km north-west of Durban, on the old main road to Pietermaritzburg before the
War Cry (novel) War Cry (novel) War Cry is a 2017 novel by Wilbur Smith. It is a Courtney saga novel, set between World War One and Two. The next book is "Courtney's War". Seven years after the events of Assegai, Leon Courtney is married to Eva Barry, and the two of them have a daughter by the name of Saffron Courtney, and have used the gold taken from Otto von Meerbach to establish a prosperous ranch in Kenya. After Eva passes away from complications related to eclampsia, Leon sends Saffron away to the Roedean School in South Africa to ensure that she