The Dutch East Indian Company held just a nominal authority over these colonials, whose population was rapidly increasing. ... Many Boers settled between the Orange river by the south- and the Vaal - by the north. ... That year, gold was discovered in Witwatersrandwhich was in the south of Transvasaal. ... Rhodes was by the time, Cape Colony Prime Minister; this colony wanted the whole south of Africa to belong to the British Empire. ... In 1899, the recently appointed Birtish governor of Cape Colony Alfred Milner, who deeply resented the way the Boers treated the British, passed decrees to tr...

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