Editing C. R. Swart (section)

==Early life==

Swart was born on 5 December 1894 on the Morgenzon farm, in the [[Winburg]] district, part of the [[Boer]] republic of the [[Orange Free State]] (which became a British colony in 1902 and a province of the [[Union of South Africa]] in 1910).<ref name="CBY">[https://books.google.com/books?id=B5QYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Charles+Robberts+Swart%22+%22Morgenzon%22 ''Current Biography Yearbook''], H. W. Wilson Company, 1960, page 420</ref>

He was the third of six children, born to Hermanus Bernardus Swart (1866–1949) and Aletta Catharina Robberts (1871–1927).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rl8nkyID3WsC&dq=%22Hermanus+Bernardus+Swart%22&pg=PA236 ''New Dictionary of South African Biography''], Volume 1, E. J. Verwey, 1995, page 236</ref> The Anglo-Boer War ([[Second Boer War]]) broke out when he was five years old. During the war, his mother and the children were interned at the [[Winburg]] concentration camp. Out of the three boys, one died while in the concentration camp. His father was wounded and captured by the British during the [[Battle of Paardeberg]]. He became a prisoner-of-war and stayed in Groenpunt and [[Simon's Town|Simonstad]] until the end of the war.<ref>[https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&tbm=bks&ei=x2uqXoflBJSG1fAPnK2PoAg&q=%22tot+die+einde+van+die+oorlog+in+Groenpunt+en+Simonstad%22&oq=%22tot+die+einde+van+die+oorlog+in+Groenpunt+en+Simonstad%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3...13027.19113.0.19657.2.2.0.0.0.0.530.619.1j5-1.2.0....0...1c.1j2.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.VmOCXDENj_E ''President C.R. Swart''], Jannie Kruger, Nasionale Boekhandel Bpk, 196, page 8</ref>

Aged seven, Swart went to the government school in Winburg. He later went to a CNO (''Christelike Nasionale Onderwys'' or "Christian National Education") school, set up by the Afrikaners in response to [[Lord Milner]]'s anglicisation policy at the government-sponsored schools.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XdFtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Christelike+Nasionale+Onderwys%22+1907 ''The Jews in South Africa: A History''], Gustav Saron, Louis Hotz, Oxford University Press, 1955, page 219</ref>

He established himself as a [[barrister]] in 1914. He spent a brief period in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] acting in silent films, before embarking on his public career. He practised law in Bloemfontein from 1919&ndash;1948, with the exception of the time spent earning a degree in journalism from [[Columbia University]] in New York in 1921–22. He reported briefly from Washington for the ''[[Die Burger]]'' newspaper.<ref name="Lakeland" />

He was married to Cornelia Wilhelmina (Nellie) de Klerk and had three children. He was a tall man at {{convert|200|cm|ftin}}.