de Wet (d? ?v?t) n (Biography) Christian Rudolf. 1854?1922, Afrikaner military commander and politician, who led the Orange Free State army in the second Boer War (1899?1902). He was imprisoned for treason (1914) after organizing an Afrikaner nationalist rebellionCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014