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Parliament, was opposed to the war, seeing it as repressive of the Boer’s freedom. The exposure
of conditions in the so-called refugee camps gave added impetus to their view, but the course of the
war was not much influenced by the Pro-Boers. However, they did make their mark on the conditions
of the peace and the subsequent development of British policy towards the Boers.
It should be noted that the ProBoers were in opposition to the war rather than in support of the
Boer republics and their policies. Prominent among them were the Members of Parliament Henry
Labouchère and Sir Wilfrid Lawson. The policy of farm burning and the use of concentration camps
brought politicians of greater standing into sympathy with the Pro-Boers; Sir Henry CampbellBannerman condemned these acts as being “methods of barbarism”. Two future British Prime
Ministers were also able to claim anti-war honours, David Lloyd George and Ramsay MacDonald.
Their motivation sprang from a number of convictions. Some opposed an imperialist war against
a country governed by a parliamentary system. Others saw the war as a capitalist plot, many going as
far as to suggest that it was a Jewish plot. Two committees came to govern the Pro-Boer movement:
the Transvaal Committee, later the South African Conciliation Committee; and the Stop the War
Committee. Support also came from groups with wider concerns, such as the League of Liberals
against Aggression and Militarism which was founded in February 1900. In the General Election of
October 1900, the so-called Khaki Election, the limited influence of the Pro-Boers was made
manifest when they failed to turn out the government.
See also:
Anti-semitism; Concentration Camps; Hobhouse, Emily.
Reference:
Koss, Stephen, The Pro-Boers (Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1973); Porter, Bernard, “The
Pro-Boers in Britain”, The South African War,ed. Peter Warwick (Harlow, Longman, 1980).
British South Africa Company
The British South Africa Company was established by Cecil Rhodes in 1888 in order to exploit the
rights obtained from the chief of the Ndebele people in what became Southern Rhodesia. It was
granted a Royal Charter in 1889, thus becoming the official governing body of a new colony, known
as the Chartered Company.
See also:
Rhodes, Cecil.
Reference:
Troup, Freda, South Africa: An Historical Introduction (London, Eyre Methuen, 1972).
British Uniforms and Equipment
In the First Boer War in 1881 the British infantry still fought in their traditional scarlet uniforms. In
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