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Boer Politics

CHAPTER III
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At the same time Cetewayo, the Zulu Chief, was threatening the Boers in the south.

Caught between two fires, without resources or organisation, annihilation was before them.

Now the English, for their own security, had the greatest interest in preventing the extermination of white men by natives; and on that ground, apart from all sentimentality, they had never ceased to protest against the methods employed by the Boers, as the surest means of bringing about that result.

Theophilus Shepstone, who possessed great influence over the Zulus, was sent to Pretoria.

Unable, even with the help of their President, to bring any order into the Government of the Transvaal, he ended by annexing it on 12th April, 1877.


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