The fighting ability of the takhaar is best illustrated by repeating an incident which occurred after the battle of Dundee when a large number of Hussars were captured.

One of the Hussar officers asked for the name of the regiment he had been fighting against.
A fun-loving Boer replied that the Boers had no regiments; that their men were divided into three brigades--the Afrikanders, the Boers, and the Takhaars--a distinction which carried with it but a slight difference.
"The Afrikander brigade," the Boer explained, "is fighting now.

They fight like demons.

When they are killed, then the Boers take the field.

The Boers fight about twice as well and hard as the Afrikanders.