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commando when his wife and children were cast out of their home without support?
Prisoners suffered less. Boers were sent to camps in Cape Colony and elsewhere and many
ended up on St Helena, in Ceylon or in Bermuda. Once Pretoria (where Churchill was imprisoned)
had fallen, the Boers had nowhere to put the British, so they usually herded them out onto the veldt,
stripped them naked and made them walk back to their comrades.
In an attempt to capture the Boers the British organised huge drives, using the same techniques
employed to drive game towards the hunters’ guns, to enclose the commandos between the sweeping
force and the static blockhouse lines. The bands of British mounted infantry became as adept as their
adversaries in travelling across the veldt, and they collected men and their sheep and cattle by this
method. However, the gaps in both the static and moving elements of the sweep were often too large
and the Boers galloped away. Both in British territory and in the former republics the fruitless chases
continued. The men on commando suffered, as they were hungry, tired and their clothes were falling
to rags. The men refusing to go on commando suffered, as their homes were sometimes burned and
their lives were threatened. Their wives and families suffered, as they were threatened with
starvation or incarceration. The men chasing them suffered, and the scope for movement decreased as
the blockhouse lines spread across the land. It eventually became clear to all but the most doctrinaire
republicans that the bitter end, to which they had sworn to continue, had arrived.
In the subsequent peace negotiations, the first to be forgotten were the black and coloured
populations in whom the British had originally professed an interest. The expense of the war had
sapped British determination to finish it on their own terms and the stubbornness of the Boers
encouraged them to hold out for something as close to independence as possible. As a result the
foundation was laid for white supremacy in public, private and economic life that would eventually
become codified in the ugly system of apartheid.
The peace was a bitter one and broke down once more on the outbreak of the First World War.
The uprising against the British led by De Wet was put down by his former comrades in the last
passages of arms to trouble South Africa. Other enmities would challenge in future.
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