The Boers : The Causes Of The Second Boer War

In the second half of the 19th century, most African countries faced the aggression of the European imperialism. All African countries were colonized except for Ethiopia and Liberia. South Africa was one of the main countries that faced imperialism. The Boers, also known as the Dutch descendents or Dutch farmers, were the first to colonize South Africa in 1652. Later on, the British came and took Cape Colony from the Dutch in 1795. The British at first mainly wanted to colonize South Africa as it helps her to trade with India by its route. South Africa’s temperate climate, natural resources, and massive minerals attracted Europeans to take it over. Also, South Africa has a strategic geographical location as it’s located at the center of the

Although there was support for the Boer War from some political views, and support from the respective countries involved in the war for their country to succeed, I don’t think that there was an ‘overwhelming’ support. My view is backed up not only by the sources, but the view of many other people, including many left wing Liberals who shared the view that the Boer war was not only unjust, but morally wrong. An overwhelming support suggests a very great amount of people supporting the cause, which there was evidently not.

During the period of Apartheid in South Africa between 1948 and 1994 the reactions of the South African citizens towards the legal separation of races varied depending on race, ideals and time period. After gold and diamonds were fud inSouthAfrica both the dutch and British wanted the land to themselves, leading to the Boer War from which the Dutch farmers emerged victorious. Following the Boer War and the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, the Dutch Boers gained control over the majority of the land in the previously British Cape Colony along with the settlements they had already built, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Blacks in South Africa made up about eighty percent of the population but only lived on ten percent of

Justification of the Canadian Participation in the Boer War The storm of war never comes alone, as it bring along extreme tragedy. “In 1899, the whole country was electrified when heard about the Imperial request from Britain. ”[1] The Britain requested Canadians for help to defeat Boers in South Africa.

In the 1830s, the British Government began to look to South Africa for the abundant gold and diamond in the area, as well as, with the hopes of gaining control of the most strategic port and route to trade with India. The British acted quickly, and started to take control of the cape of South Africa. In 1833, they emancipated the Afrikaners’ slaves, created more taxes, and auctioned off previously communal land. This caused great rage within the Boer community. The Boers were Dutch and Huguenot people that migrated to South Africa in the late 17th century (Great Trek). Starting in 1835, the Boers left their homeland with the goal of starting a new life free from British rule. The majority of the migrants left from the Eastern frontier of South

South Africa has diamonds and gold. The Boers settled in Africa long before the British came there to colonize. The Boers were Dutch and come over to Africa in 1652. The Boers and the British did not agree with British policies including land and slaves. The Boers had no where to go but north. Which later became known as the Great Trek. When they were heading north they got in fierce battles with the Zulu and many other African groups as they were attempting to take land. The Boers didn't want outsiders coming in when gold was discovered. The Boers did t want any of the people coming to seeks fortune to gain any political rights. People tried to rebel against the Boers and failed. The British were blamed, and the tension was greater than ever.

The avowal that the apartheid ‘vision for democracy’ necessitated state terror and repression is evident when examining the South African apartheid system between 1960 -1994. The system of apartheid spiked significant internal resistance, hence, the ideology for apartheid stems from the creation of a white state surrounded by economically interdependent and politically dependent black states, which required state terror and repression to ensure mounting resistance and international condemnation did not abolish the apartheid system. The government responded to a series of popular uprisings and protests with police brutality, which increased support for armed resistance. Detentions were set without trial, torture, censorship and the outlawing of political oppositional organizations such as The African National Congress, the Black Conscious Movement, the Azanian Peoples Organisation, The Pan Africanist Congress and the United Democratic Front, were all a result of the apartheid government due to political resistance.

Throughout the 18th and 19th century, Europe underwent an Industrial Revolution. People began relying heavily on machines. Various countries required resources for their industrial lifestyle, and thus they enforced a policy of imperialism. Imperialism is when a country politically, economically, and socially stronger takes control over a weaker country and utilizes the resources from that country. However, many countries abused their power during imperialism. European nations are guilty of abuse of power in the Congo, India, and South Africa.

Imperialism is when a country extends their control over foreign countries to obtain land that is beneficial to them and this happens in the form of colonies. Many European countries colonized South Africa because of its abundance of many resources that they wanted. The imperialism in South Africa had both positive and negative impacts to different racial groups. While the Europeans benefited the original occupants were oppressed. Through the apartheid, which is racial segregation, black people were separated from each other, they lost political and economic power, and were forcibly removed from their land.

“Britain was also interested in areas known to be rich in minerals like the country of Transvaal,” (David, 2011). They also aimed at keeping other countries out of their territories so as to not lose the upper hand in the search for gold and priceless gems. Because of this plan to keep other countries out, by the late 1800’s Britain was in control of about 30% of Africa’s population.

With expansionism, which started in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labor Model. This was the first model of expansionism got by the Dutch 1652 and hence sent out from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. Numerous South Africans are the relatives of slaves conveyed to the Cape Colony from 1653 until 1822. The progressions created on African social orders by the inconvenience of European pilgrim guideline happened one after another. Indeed, it was the rate with which change happened that set the pioneer time separated from before periods in South Africa. Obviously, not all social orders were similarly changed. Some opposed the powers of pilgrim interruption,

South Africa was beneficial for Britain economically due to the Transvaal region (Northern Cape) as it brought in high profits from the diamonds found in Kimberley (1871) and gold that was mined from Gaueng (1886). This is one of the factors that helped the British Empire expand in Africa because they knew that South Africa provided a useful stop for ships on their way to India. Consequently, this resulted in conflict between British and the Boers, the Boers wanted a farming lifestyle whilst the British made the Boer’s country full of developing businesses and industries. Tensions between Boers and British led to the violent Boer War (1899-1902), which the British won. Britain was now very keen to ultimately control South Africa because of Rhodes desire for the Cape providing its strategic approach and economic value. Economic factors were the main reason for the expansion of Britain’s Empire within (South) Africa as well as strategic reasons because Britons wanted to grow the British empire but most importantly, their aim was to generate a high economic value as well as enhancing their opportunities to trade to other colonies.

White voters were allowed only. African people and the national liberation organization to protest against this act but never succeeded.

The Boer War was a conflict that lasted from 1899 to 1902 in southern Africa between Great Britain and their allies, Transvaal (South African Republic) and Orange Free State, in what is now South Africa.

How should an empire assert their claim to territory and how should they govern it? This question is important because there are a number of methods an empire could employ presiding over a colony. For example the French empire employed a system call direct rule. The French rulers wanted to assimilate or incorporate the peoples of West Africa . The British however preferred a system called indirect rule and it was applied to many of their West African colonies including Nigeria and Ghana. It has proven to be detrimental to problems in Africa and can be linked to the political past of the British colonial government. The goal of this paper is to expose the reasons for indirect rule in British colonies and the negative impact of post colonial development in West Africa.