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and unfranchised, an outcome that, if it troubled some of the British, was not allowed to inhibit
the conclusion of an agreement between the warring whites.
The Boer burghers were frequently accompanied by their black agterryers,literally their afterriders. The agterryeracted as groom, cook, forager, companion and ally. President Steyn of the
Orange Free State owed his escape from the British at Reitz to the resourcefulness and loyalty of his
agterryer,Jan Ruiter, whom Steyn described as his bodyguard and cook. In battle, an agterryerwould
frequently take up arms alongside his Oubaas,or master. Some 10,000 black Africans, it is estimated,
took part in the war in Boer service.
The British made a considered decision at the outset not to make use of black troops to fight, but
they did employ large numbers of them as scouts and drivers as well as taking them on as servants. It
is estimated that the drivers alone numbered some 14,000 men, earning up to ninety shillings a month,
while less important jobs yielded forty to fifty shillings a month. These were good wages at the time,
and, in the absence of work in the mines closed by the war, were most welcome. As the war went on
British views changed. Black Africans who owned rifles were allowed to keep them. Then, in July
1901, when the Boer Assistant Chief-commandant P. H. Kritzinger had invaded Cape Colony, he
declared that black Africans in British service would be shot even if unarmed. Their subsequent need
to defend themselves led to the issue of arms to them.
In March 1902 the British Commander-in-Chief, Lord Kitchener, was finally compelled to admit
to the number of black Africans serving in
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