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	Transvaal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Transvaal was colonized by Boer settlers who exited the British-dominated Cape Colony in the 1830's and 1840's in the Great Trek.
		In the 1850's, the British came to an understanding with the Boer republics, granting independence to the South African Republic (ZAR) in what is now the Transvaal.
		In 1961, the union ceased to be part of the British Commonwealth and became the Republic of South Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transvaal (380 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Orange_Free_State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Transvaal Republic, a sister Boer state, was granted independence around the same time.
		Although the Orange Free State developed into a politically and economically successful republic, it experienced chronic conflict with the British (see the Boer Wars) until it was finally annexed as the Orange River Colony in 1900.
		The republic's name derives partly from the Orange River (just as the Transvaal Republic was named after the Vaal River), but both names were bestowed by the Dutch Protestant settlers in honor of the Dutch ruling family, the House of Orange.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Orange_Free_State (402 words)

	Encyclopedia: South African Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, or ZAR), often informally known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent country in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century.
		It is not to be confused with the present-day Republic of South Africa; rather, it occupied the area later known as the South African province of Transvaal.
		Thomas Francois Burgers, president of the old Transvaal Republic 1871-1877, was the youngest child of Barend and Elizabeth Burger of the farm Langefontein in the Camdeboo district of Graaff-Reinet, South Africa.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/South-African-Republic (2471 words)

	Transvaal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The Transvaal was bounded on the N and W by the Limpopo River, which forms the border with Zimbabwe and Botswana, on the E by Mozambique and Swaziland, and on the S by the Vaal River, the border with Orange Free State (now Free State).
		The Transvaal, led by Jan Christiaan Smuts and Louis Botha, was granted self-government in 1907 and in 1910 became a founding province of the Union of South Africa.
		In 1961, the Transvaal became a province of the Republic of South Africa.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tr/Transvaa.html (590 words)

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		The Republic of Natalia vanished, and many of the Boer emi grants returned north across the mountains, prizing their independence more than the good pastures of Natal, and full of resentment at the Government which had stepped in to deprive them of the fruit of their victory over the Zulu king.
		The Transvaal was held to be a damnosa hereditas before the dis covery of gold, and the suzerainty clauses were thrown in to save England's face.
		The Transvaal and its bewildered burghers woke up to find themselves the centre of European intrigue, and the London Convention was dis covered to be a document of capital importance.
	djvued.libs.uga.edu /text/bbtxt.txt (16627 words)

	Grey Steel—A biography of J C Smuts
		The centre of South Africa was shifting from Cape Town to the Transvaal, to Johannesburg, which had been the camp for the gold-miners and was now rapidly growing from a town into a rich city, and Rhodes wanted to con trol Johannesburg.
		They were in the Transvaal, he told them, on sufferance: they said that they could not get justice in the courts or from the police, that they were being fleeced.
		A weak move, and they would be in the Transvaal as champions of the Dutch and the way to the north would be blocked for ever.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/armstrng/chap6.htm (1316 words)

	The Boer Republics and British Rule
		The Boer Republic refused to grant the new immigrants voting rights, correctly foreseeing the loss of political power, and this "Uitlander" ('Foreigner") question was to serve as the spark for the Second Anglo-Boer war of 1889 - 1902, the one that is most often remembered in the annals of history.
		The Transvaal President, Kruger, sent an ultimatum to the British administration in the Cape to stop the troop build up or the Boers would regard it as an act of war (which it of course was).
		Although the Boer Republics had denied citizenship or voting rights to the Blacks, they were not alone in this policy: the British strictly enforced similar policies in their parts of Southern Africa, with the only exception being granted to a small number of Cape Coloreds who could meet very stringent property requirement stipulations.
	www.white-history.com /hwr56ii.htm (3499 words)

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		On the other hand the Transvaal authorities were not unwilling to allow the United States consul at Pretoria to perform certain enumerated services in behalf of all British prisoners of war and their friends.
		The Republics, however, were treated at the close of the war as conquered territory and their obligations taken over by the British Government.
		The Transvaal strongly protested against this act as a breach of a treaty between the two Governments in which by Article VI the Portuguese Government was prohibited from stopping ammunition intended for the Transvaal, but upon representations by England might stop ammunition on its way to any English colony.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/4/2/12427/12427.txt (15226 words)

	History of the Boer War
		Numerous attempts of annexation of the South African Republic were pursued, without any result: rather, the military occupation of it in 1881 brought to the heavy defeat of Majuba, one of the most mortifying pages in the history of the British Colonial Army.
		In the 1897, the Southafrican Republic and the Free State of Orange signed an accord of mutual assistance: the war was inexorably approaching in Southern Africa.
		Aware of the imminent danger, the Free State of Orange and the Southafrican Republic concluded a formal alliance in 1898 and begun with urgency the acquisition of large quantities of modern weapons from Germany and also from France.
	www.geocities.com /iturks/html/engboerwar.html (2332 words)

	Poli 383: First Assignment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Government of the Transvaal Republic had seized the property, under unknown circumstances, from the company prior to a war commencing in 1899 between the Britain and the Republic.
		The war resulted in Britain defeating the Republic in 1900, whereby Britain annexed all its territories and declared that the Government of the Republic ceased to exist.
		The conquering state, Britain, is not responsible or bound to fulfil any obligations of the conquered state, the Transvaal Republic.
	pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca /~carman/courses/West_Rand.html (503 words)

	APPENDIX VII
		It is not surprising that Transvaal British Indians, the majority of whom were, of course, compelled to leave the country during the war, confidently looked forward to the repeal of Law 3 as soon as the British flag should float over Pretoria.
		The Transvaal Government further proposed that immigration should be regulated by a law similar to those in force in the Cape and Natal, and to admit Indian as well as European languages in the education test to be imposed under the Act.
		The Indian of the Transvaal a branded a pariah by statute; he is treated as such in practice; regardless of the obvious terminological inexactitude, he is indiscriminately dubbed “coolie”.
	www.mkgandhi.org /cwm/vol7/app7.htm (6039 words)

	Anglo Boer War Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Transvaal presidency was left vacant and a struggle for control of the government followed.
		Burgers left the country and Transvaal was left leaderless, although Kruger was elected vice-president by the Volksraad on the eve of the election.
		Kruger realised that the Republic’s one chance of winning the war was to open the offensive before the British could gain the upper hand.
	www.anglo-boer.co.za /kruger.html (3317 words)

	Boer War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first clash was precipitated by Sir Theophilus Shepstone who tried to annex the Transvaal (the South African Republic) for the British in 1877 after the Zulu War.
		The Boers dressed in earthtone khaki clothes, whereas the British uniforms were bright red, a stark contrast to the African landscape, which enabled the Boers to easily snipe British troops from a distance.
		After a British force under George Pomeroy-Collery was heavily defeated at the Battle of Majuba Hill in February 1881 the British government of Gladstone gave the Boers self-government in the Transvaal under a theoretical British oversight.
	usapedia.com /b/boer-war.html (489 words)

	Paul Kruger Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At the age of 16, Kruger was entitled to choose a farm for himself at the foot of the Magaliesberg, where he settled in 1841.
		After the annexation of the Transvaal by Britain in 1877, Kruger became the leader of the resistance movement.
		On 30 December 1880, at the age of 55, Kruger was elected President of the Transvaal.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Paul_Kruger (1133 words)

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		That the fl population of the Transvaal is conscious of being treated with exceeding brutality by the Boers is disproved by the fact that for months past all the women and children of the two Republics have been left at the absolute mercy of the natives in the midst of whom they live.
		Accordingly the Government of the South African Republic replied that it did not base its claim to self-government on the preamble of the Convention of 1881, nor on the Convention of 1884 (for no mention is made of self-government in that document), but simply on the ground of its being a sovereign international state.
		The Government of the Republic, being pressed to take action, suspended the Field Cornet, and an enquiry was held, at which he and the police denied most of the allegations of violence; but the other facts were not disputed, and no independent evidence was called for the defence.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/5/1/7/15175/15175.txt (15667 words)

	South African Republic -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The first was established in the Potchefstroom area of the Transvaal, by Voortrekkers (Afrikaner migrants from the Cape) in 1838.
		The Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), usually simply called Congo, a small African nation lying west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)—the country formerly known as Zaire, east of Gabon, and south of Cameroon and the Central African Republic in equatorial Africa.
		It bordered the Indian Ocean on the southeast and the Republic of South Africa on the southwest, northwest, and northeast.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9068831?tocId=9068831 (865 words)

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		PRETORIA If you ambled into Pretoria, the center of Boer authority in the Transvaal Republic, you might wonder what the fuss was about.
		Let’s face it; the head of the Transvaal Republic, compared to the Czar or the Kaiser, looks about as threatening to the British Empire as a cow on roller-skates.
		Whereas the deep level min-owners had a vested interest in replacing Kruger’s republic with an efficient, modernizing state, friendly to large-scale capitalist plans. And needless to say, British government leaders knew that with Britain at the forefront, leading the international monetary markets, anything involving the mining of gold involved them.
	www.uky.edu /~msumm2/empire/1896JamesRaid.doc (5416 words)

	GERMAN DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS, THE BOER WAR, 1899. PRELIMINARY CORRESPONDENCE
		In addition to the unsatisfactory negociations about the Republic's claim for indemnity for the Jameson Raid at the end of 1895, there were also points of difference in the question of continuing the dynamite monopoly, but above all, in the British Uitlanders' complaints at the withholding of political rights.
		Chamberlain declared outright that England's condition for not intervening was that the Transvaal Government should proceed seriously to place the indigenous Dutch population on an equal footing politically with the Uitlanders.
		At the meeting of September 8th the Cabinet discussed the reply to the Transvaal Government's note of September 2nd--which reply (September 9th) was one of rejection and thereby intensified the crisis; also, and especially, the question of military preparation for the war which now appeared highly probable.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/dugdale/boer.htm (7883 words)

	West Rand Central Gold
		The petition then averred that by reason of the conquest and annexation Her Majesty succeeded to the sovereignty of the Transvaal Republic, and became entitled to its property; and that the obligation which vested in the Government was binding upon His present Majesty the King.
		Before dealing with the questions of law which were argued before us, we think it right to say that we must not be taken as acceding to the view that the allegations in the petition disclosed a sufficient ground for relief.
		The only principle, however, which can be deduced from these cases is that a Government claiming rights of property and rights under a contract cannot enforce those rights in our Courts without fulfilling the terms of the contract as a whole.
	lawofwar.org /west_rand_central_gold.htm (2494 words)

	Chapter XIX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He accompanied them in the first instance to Pretoria, and afterwards paid for their defence at the trial, and it was evident that he took the verdict and sentence very much to heart.
		Preceding the introduction of the Natives' Land Act, the clamour of a section of the colonists and most of the Transvaal Boers for more restrictive measures towards the fls was accompanied at one of its stages by alarming reports of "Native disaffection", "Bakhatla insolence", and similar inflammatory headlines.
		The assurances of the Magistrate made the Natives rather restive; the result was that a deputation of Barolong chiefs had a dramatic interview with the Magistrate, at which the writer acted as interpreter.
	www.anc.org.za /books/nlife19.htm (4817 words)

	Grey Steel—A biography of J C Smuts
		The quarrels of the English and the Dutch ceased to be the squabbles of relations and became a vicious quarrel for wealth, with the English Government behind the local English.
		The Dutch, convinced that the English Government had decided to annex their republics, though not looking to Holland for help, were equally determined to defend their independence to the bitter end.
		He believed that South Africa, consisting of the two colonies of the Cape and Natal together with the two Dutch Republics of the Transvaal and the Free State, must remain as one indivisible whole, and that within it, the Dutch and the English should work shoulder to shoulder as one white nation.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/armstrng/chap4.htm (1781 words)

	History of Botswana - Gem of Africa - Republic of Botswana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The chiefs triumphal return was followed a month later on 29 December by the Jameson Raid - an ill-timed and poorly executed plan by Rhodes to overthrow the Boers in the Transvaal republic.
		Dr Jameson a trusted confident of Rhodes, launched the raid with the intention of causing an uprising by the non-Boers in the Transvaal Republic.
		The protectorate was granted internal self government in 1965 and the republic of Botswana became completely independent on 30 September 1966, under the new president, Sir Seretse Khama.
	www.gov.bw /gem/history_of_botswana.html (893 words)

	Background Notes: South Africa
		Independent Boer republics of the Transvaal (the South African Republic) and the Orange Free State were created in 1852 and 1854.
		The two former republics and the two British colonies of the Cape and Natal were joined on May 31, 1910, to form the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire.
		When the Union of South Africa was established, the former Boer republics and the principal British colony wanted their capitals-Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town-to be selected as the capital of the new Union.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/southafrica9003.html (9314 words)

	C h r o n o l o g y - S t e p h a n u s J o h a n n e s P a u l o s K r u g e r (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Paul Kruger becomes field-cornet of his area, an important position in the young Transvaal republic.September- instructed Pretorius to negotiate with the British to recognise the independence of Transvaal Voortrekkers.
		Theophilus Shepstone annexes the Transvaal, as a result the election was not held.
		Here the government of the republic was placed and it consisted of Kruger, P.J. Joubert and M.W. Pretorius.
	www.sahistory.org.za /pages/chronology/special-chrono/kruger.htm (1336 words)

	The life of Cecil John Rhodes
		In 1885, Rhodes persuaded Britain to annex Bechuanaland (now called Botswana), in an attempt to prevent the Boer Transvaal Republic from extending its territory northwards.
		He had visions of Britain controlling all of southern Africa, and the Transvaal Republic was seen as one of the main threats.
		Soon after the region of Matabeleland was renamed Rhodesia in his honour, Rhodes was approached by a group of British settlers, victims of discrimination, from Transvaal Republic, who planned to overthrow the Boer run government.
	ks.essortment.com /ceciljohnrhode_rlbo.htm (609 words)

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		The Voortrekkers eventually set up independent republics, including the Orange Free State (1854) and the South African Republic (1852; later the Transvaal).
		Paul KRUGER (Oom Paul), leader of the Transvaal, resisted British attempts to claim the area, including those by Cecil RHODES, prime minister of the British-controlled Cape Colony, who encouraged the Uitlanders to take over the Transvaal.
		In 1961 the Union of South Africa withdrew from the Commonwealth of Nations due to opposition within that body to apartheid policies, and the Republic of South Africa was declared.
	www.gateway-africa.com /countries/safrica.html (1788 words)

	The Berlin mission and the Challenges of South Africa
		They were active in all regions of the sub-continent and featured prominently in some areas, most notably the Transvaal Republic.
		Yet when conflict arose in the 1890s between Maleboch and the Boer government, Sonntag, while being consistently friendly and loyal towards the Bahananoa, acted as mediator between the two warring parties and insisted that the Africans had to pay taxes and observe the laws of the land.
		The Pedi Polity, the Boers and the British in the Nineteenth-century Transvaal.
	www.geocities.com /missionalia/germiss1.htm (6676 words)

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