My grandad, Robert Burns Waterston, back in 1922 formed his own army and with side-drummers and a rag tag of armed miners marched on Johannesburg. Smuts who was the prime minister called up the South African army and airforce and all hell broke loose in Johannesburg.
"Prime Minister Jan Smuts crushed the rebellion with 20,000 troops, artillery, tanks, and bomber aircraft. By this time the rebels had dug trenches across Fordsburg Square and the air force tried to bomb but missed and hit a local church. However the army's bombardment finally overran them"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Rebellion
He, together with the other leaders of the rebellion were captured put onto a darkened train and sent to Durban where they were put on a ship bound for England.
The supporters of the rebellion got wind of this and hastily commissioned a boat to set sail from Cape Town to try and intercept the England bound vessel. They failed to do so.
My grandfather was an Australian and soon after landing on English soil he daily got onto his little soap box in Hyde Park and told all who would listen that as he was an Australian Smuts had deported him to the wrong country
The long and short of it the British government made Smuts take him back and he not only joined Smuts' goverment as an MP, then later Commissionar of the Railways, and later Escom but had a harbour tug, streets named after him and after retirement became mayor. He just could not leave politics alone.
A very colourful character.