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becoming Premier of Cape Colony. The uitlanderswere thought to outnumber the Afrikaner
population of the Transvaal, or South African Republic as it had become, but they were denied
political rights until they had completed fourteen years’ residence lest they took power. Rhodes and
Beit plotted the overthrow of the Boer government and planned an invasion to be supported by an
uprising in Johannesburg.
Rhodes and Beit owned the Chartered Company which administered and exploited Rhodesia,
and it was with some 400 mounted police, employees of that company, and a further 150 at Mafeking
in Cape Colony, all under Dr L. S. Jameson, that the invasion was to be carried out. They also had six
Maxim machineguns, two 7-pounder mountain guns and a 12-pounder field gun. Meanwhile the
Reform Committee in Johannesburg was intending to organise a local uprising to coincide with
Jameson’s arrival. The committee sent secret signals to Jameson to say they were not ready, but
Jameson lost patience and set out on Sunday 29 December. Dawn on 2 January found them at
Doornkop, south-west of Johannesburg where they had been herded by bands of Boers they scarcely
saw. The uprising in the town had not taken place and the raiders were surrounded. They refused to
surrender and fought until at 8 a.m. they had lost sixteen men and forty-nine had been wounded. They
surrendered and all the messages that had passed between Jameson and Rhodes’s headquarters in
Cape Town fell into Boer hands, together with the code-books. Rhodes’s part in the affair became
public knowledge and he was forced to resign his political position.
See also:
Jameson, Dr L. S.; Rhodes, Cecil.
Reference:
Longford, Elizabeth, Jameson’s Raid (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982, 2nd edition);
Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War (London, Weidenfeld |&l| Nicolson, 1979; Abacus, 1992);
Troup, Freda, South Africa: An Historical Introduction (London, Eyre Methuen, 1972).
Jammerbergdrif, Siege of,
9–24 April 1900
After his success at Mostertshoek, Chief-commandant Christiaan De Wet allowed his antipathy to
Afrikaners serving with the British to overcome his tactical judgement when he besieged a British
force at Jammerbergdrif, a ford across the Caledon River some four miles (6km) west of Wepener.
He abandoned the undertaking after two weeks, having achieved nothing of value and having exposed
his force to the danger of entrapment, nimbly avoided, near Thaba ‘Nchu as he withdrew to the north.
The British forces at Wepener consisted of the Kaffrarian Rifles, 1st and 2nd Brabant’s Horse,
the Cape Mounted Riflemen, Driscoll’s Scouts and a company of the Royal Scots mounted infantry.
Under threat of attack the commander of the garrison, Major C. Maxwell, Royal Engineers, created a
defensive position using a ring of hills just west of the drift over
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