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and one of the Boer leaders, Commandant-general Louis Botha. Peace terms were discussed,
including an ex gratiapayment of one million pounds to the Boers and a general amnesty associated
with Crown Colony status for the former republics. There was no question of a grant of
independence. In his letter of 7 March, summarising the terms as modified by the Colonial Secretary,
Joseph Chamberlain, Kitchener also wrote: “As regards the extension of the franchise to Kaffirs in the
Transvaal and Orange River Colony, it is not the intention . . . to give such franchise before
representative government is granted to those Colonies, and if then given will be so limited as to
secure the just predominance of the white race. The legal position of coloured persons will, however,
be similar to that which they hold in Cape Colony.” On 16 March he received a message from Botha
rejecting the terms, apparently because the Boers the British regarded as rebels in Cape Colony were
not subject to the amnesty.
See also:
Peace Negotiations; Documents: The Middelburg Proposals.
Reference:
Pakenham, Thomas, The Boer War (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979; Abacus, 1992).
Military Attachés
The war attracted considerable attention from the military of other countries. Attachés from America,
France, Germany and Japan accompanied both British and Boer forces and Norway and Russia had
men with the Boer armies. The Germans went as far as publishing their own account of the war, but
only to the end of 1900, thereby neglecting the guerrilla phase.
Reference:
Great General Staff, Berlin, translated by Hubert du Cane and W. H. H. Waters, The War in South
Africa (London, John Murray, 1902; New York, Negro Universities Press, 1969).
Milner, Lord,
1854–1924
In 1897 the then Sir Alfred Milner was appointed Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
and High Commissioner for South Africa. He promoted the crisis that led to war in 1899 in order to
make a union of South African colonies ruled by Britain possible, and acted to influence peace
proposals accordingly. He was an unashamed, indeed a proud, imperialist.
Alfred Milner was born in Germany and educated there and in England. He was a brilliant
scholar at Oxford and became a lawyer. He had experience in government in Egypt, and after the
fiasco of the Jameson Raid which ended in triumph for the Boers in 1896, the British required a man
of strong vision and political reliability in South Africa. In order to undermine President Kruger’s
power, he pressed the cause of the uitlanders,the foreigners who had flooded into the South African
Republic after the discovery of gold and now found themselves without the vote and heavily taxed. At
the Bloemfontein Conference in 1899 he stood firm against any pro
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