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When daylight came they found themselves under fire from Surprise Hill to the south, from the
east across the valley and attacked from the north along the ridge by 400 ZARPS (police) led by
Commandant G. M. J. van Dam and 150 Free Staters under Commandant L. P. Steenkamp and
Christiaan De Wet. De Wet was of the opinion that the British were well placed with good cover in
the rough ground on the southern end of the hill. However, the British line was at right angles to the
spine of the hill so that the far ends of each line were not visible to one another. This led to a
signalling muddle and one end withdrew, forcing the other to follow suit. The Boers rushed forward
to take advantage of the abandoned sangars and redoubled their fire. A white flag was shown by an
isolated and surrounded group of the Glosters under Captains Duncan and Fyffe and the Boers,
assuming this signalled a general surrender of all the British, rose up to accept it. Carleton felt
obliged to order the cease-fire and led his men into captivity.
See also:
Ladysmith, Siege of; Lombard’s Kop, Action at.
Reference:
Chisholm, Ruari, Ladysmith (London, Osprey Publishing, 1979); De Wet, Christiaan, Three Years
War (London, Archibald Constable & Co., 1902); Marix Evans, Martin, The Boer War: South
Africa 1899–1902 (Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1999); Reitz, Deneys, Commando: A Boer
Journal of the Boer War (London, Faber & Faber, 1929; Prescott, Arizona, Wolfe Publishing,
1994).
Nguni People
The two main groups of Bantu-speaking people in South Africa are the Sotho-Tswana and the Nguni.
The latter is the group to which the Zulu belong, together with the Swazi, Pondo, Thembu and Xhosa
of the south and eastern coast and the Ndebele of the Transvaal. That the Nguni were present in southeast Africa in the 15th century seems likely and that they were there in the 16th is certain.
See also:
Zulu, The.
Reference:
Knight, Ian J., Warrior Chiefs of Southern Africa (Poole, Firebird, 1994); Troup, Freda, South
Africa: An Historical Introduction (London, Eyre Methuen, 1972).
Nooitgedacht, Battle of,
13 December 1900
The confidence, or perhaps complacency, with which the British viewed the war after the fall of
Pretoria and the return of Lord Roberts, the former Commander-in-Chief, to England is illustrated by
the victory, incomplete though it was, of the Boers at Nooitgedacht. Major-general R. A. P. Clements
camped on the supply route from Johannesburg to Rustenburg in the valley between the Magaliesberg
and the Witwatersberg hills, comfortably close to a good supply of water. The Boers attacked both
from the Magaliesbergs and along the valley from the west, forcing the British to make a fighting
retreat. Only the eagerness of the Boers for booty, their vital means
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