 However, when the motion came to the vote, Botha and Smuts triumphed, pulling through by the skin of their teeth.The Old Boers were outraged, and marched out of the conference.In 1914, this core of Old Boers, together with a few inexperienced politicians, such as Daniel François Malan and Tielman Johannes Roos, formed its own party, opposed to everything for which Smuts and Botha stood.