Brand himself did not wish to take the responsibility of governing it.

But he continued to press the case for compensation, and the British Government, which had forced independence upon the Boers, appeared in the invidious light of shirking responsibility while grasping at mineral wealth.

If it had not been for this untoward incident, the Dutch Republics would have been more favourable to Lord Carnarvon's policy than Cape Colony was.

The Transvaal was imperfectly protected against the formidable power of the Zulus, and a general rising of blacks against whites was the real danger which threatened South Africa.
That peril, however, was felt more acutely in Natal than in Cape Colony.

The Cape had for two years enjoyed responsible government, and its first Prime Minister was John Charles Molteno.
Molteno was not in any other respect a remarkable man.