The Boers left Cape Colony to begin the Orange Free State and Transvaal.
The British and the Boers did not get along after the British army took over the Cape colony from the Boers. Their disagreement grew further after the British enacted laws such as making English to be the official language and the freeing of British slaves.
They wanted to get away from the British. They did not like their rule, they did not want to speak english, and they did not agree with Great Britian's doing away with enslavement.
shortage of land and population increase are the main causes of great terk
indo niggvgv NEW RESPONDENT In 1893, the south Africa was controlled as follows: The Cape Colony by Great Britain, Transvaal and the Orange free State by the Boers.
Boers: descendants of early Dutch settlers during Napoleonic wars, British seized their lands and later encouraged more Brits to move to this area and renamed it cape colony-->boers moved north "the great trek" to region between Orange and Vaal rivers and formed two republics-->boers frequently battled Zulu-->Zulu defeated by Brits-->Cecil Rhodes started diamond and gold companies operating in South Africa and became rich-->Rhodes, who was made prime minister of the cape colony, planned to overthrow the south African republic of Boers without British approval. by then it was too late to avoid a war-->Boer war 1899-1902
The British and the Boers did not get along after the British army took over the Cape colony from the Boers. Their disagreement grew further after the British enacted laws such as making English to be the official language and the freeing of British slaves.
They wanted to get away from the British. They did not like their rule, they did not want to speak english, and they did not agree with Great Britian's doing away with enslavement.
They wanted to get away from the British. They did not like their rule, they did not want to speak english, and they did not agree with Great Britian's doing away with enslavement.
shortage of land and population increase are the main causes of great terk
indo niggvgv NEW RESPONDENT In 1893, the south Africa was controlled as follows: The Cape Colony by Great Britain, Transvaal and the Orange free State by the Boers.
They were known as, 'Boers'.
is the Dutch word for farmer which came to denote the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking pastoralists of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free
Cape Colony ended in 1910.
Boers: descendants of early Dutch settlers during Napoleonic wars, British seized their lands and later encouraged more Brits to move to this area and renamed it cape colony-->boers moved north "the great trek" to region between Orange and Vaal rivers and formed two republics-->boers frequently battled Zulu-->Zulu defeated by Brits-->Cecil Rhodes started diamond and gold companies operating in South Africa and became rich-->Rhodes, who was made prime minister of the cape colony, planned to overthrow the south African republic of Boers without British approval. by then it was too late to avoid a war-->Boer war 1899-1902
Boers: descendants of early Dutch settlers during Napoleonic wars, British seized their lands and later encouraged more Brits to move to this area and renamed it cape colony-->boers moved north "the great trek" to region between Orange and Vaal rivers and formed two republics-->boers frequently battled Zulu-->Zulu defeated by Brits-->Cecil Rhodes started diamond and gold companies operating in South Africa and became rich-->Rhodes, who was made prime minister of the cape colony, planned to overthrow the south African republic of Boers without British approval. by then it was too late to avoid a war-->Boer war 1899-1902
Boers: descendants of early Dutch settlers during Napoleonic wars, British seized their lands and later encouraged more Brits to move to this area and renamed it cape colony-->boers moved north "the great trek" to region between Orange and Vaal rivers and formed two republics-->boers frequently battled Zulu-->Zulu defeated by Brits-->Cecil Rhodes started diamond and gold companies operating in South Africa and became rich-->Rhodes, who was made prime minister of the cape colony, planned to overthrow the south African republic of Boers without British approval. by then it was too late to avoid a war-->Boer war 1899-1902
Transvaal Colony was created in 1902.