At the very moment when the Raid was contemplated he was making the most solemn assurances to his friends--as they then believed themselves to be--that he would never tolerate any attack against the independence of the Boers.

If his advice had been taken, Rhodes considered that the errors which culminated at Majuba with the defeat of the British troops would have been avoided.

He caused the same assurances to be conveyed to President Kruger, and this duplicity, which in anyone less compromised than he was in regard to the Dutch party might have been blamed, was in his case considered as something akin to high treason, and roused against him sentiments not only of hatred, but also of disgust.
When later on, at the time of the Boer War, Rhodes made attempts to ingratiate himself once more into the favour of the Dutch he failed to realise that while there are cases when animosity can give way before political necessity, it is quite impossible in private to shake hands with an individual whom one despises.

And that such persons as Mrs.van Koopman or Mr.Schreiner, for instance, despised Rhodes there can be no doubt.
They were wrong in doing so.

Rhodes was essentially a man of moods, and also an opportunist in his strange, blunt way.