Military Intelligence Agent. He was born in the town of Tulbagh and raised in Bethlehem, Orange Free State. Originally trained as a school teacher, he became a lawyer and notary with his own law firm in Krugersdorp, Transvaal Republic. When the Second Boer War began, he was made a Captain in the Boer Army and was put in charge of organizing and leading the Boer Intelligence scouts ... Theron se Verkenningskorps (TVK) (Theron's Reconnaissance Corps). To save horses for combat, he developed the use of bicycles for dispatch and reconnaissance. His 105 recruits were equipped with various items including revolvers, binoculars and sometimes light carbine. The TVK would watch British movements and study their tactics during battles. His most notable single action was in the Battle of Paardeberg, where on 25 February 1900, a Boer Gen. Piet Cronje and several thousand troops were surrounded by British forces. Outnumbered and losing the battle, Theron, acting as a messenger for the other primary Boer commander, sneaked through British lines to convey a plan for a breakout operation - and then sneaked through the lines a second time to bring back Cronje's reply. The TVK brought many Boer civilians and soldiers across the river safely into Boer territory, but in spite of his efforts the planned operation failed and most of the Boer forces surrendered. While scouting alone on a koppie at Gatsrand, about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north of present-day Fochville, he encountered 7 members of Marshall's Horse and was killed in action. On September 15, 1900, the men of the TVK exhumed the body of their Commandant and reburied him in the family cemetery of the Pienaar family near Fochville. On March 10, 1903, Theron's last will was carried out and his body was once again exhumed to be reburied next to that of his late fiancée Hannie Neethling on her father's farm Eikenhof on the Klip River, Johannesburg, Kliprivier, Gauteng, South Africa. A number of tributes, monuments and schools have been named in his honor. His brother was the grandfather of well known actress Charlize Theron.