A newspaper-style article describing the end of the Boer war, ending in British victory.

May 1902--The pent up tensions among British in Afrikaans states and the Afrikaners themselves had finally broken. The British halcyon prospectors moving in on Boer land, and the Boers mistreatment of the British became too much for both sides and in 1899, the Boers declare war. A little history of the relationship between these settlers is due. The British claimed the Cape of Good Hope in 1806. Called the undischarged journey, the Afrikaners settled beyond the Vaal and Orange Rivers in 1835, when the British freed slaves in 1834 and started expanding into South Africa. The Afrikaners founded Afrikaner republics of the South African country or Transvaal, Orange Free State, and Natal. In 1843, Britain annexed Natal, and in 1877, aft(prenominal) cardinal years of being recognized as an free state, the British annexed Transvaal. In 1881, Paul Kruger led a tumult that end up in the relinquishment of Transvaal. In 1895, Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beit O.K. an onset of Transvaal, called the Jameson raid, which failed completely because of unfortunate timing and caused Cecil Rhodes to resign as aboriginal Minister. Their motive was that the demand for gold [in Witwatersrand in 1886 in the Transvaal] was inexhaustible [and] within twenty years the powerful companies were responsible for sensation third of the worlds output (source 3->Africa).

Ever since gold was discover in Witwatersrand gold mines in vast amounts in the Transvaal, British prospectors had been going to the Transvaal to try on their fortunes and the Boers had become much and more irritated with the moving in of Uitlanders (forei gners). Because of these hostile feelings, t! he Boers started treating these foreigners with disrespect and abuse. Uitlanders were denied suffrage rights and other political rights by the President of the Transvaal, Paul Kruger. The Uitlanders were believed to outnumber the Boers, states... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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