The_South_African_War__Transvaal_Republic

The South African War: Transvaal Republic The South African War: Transvaal Republic Thesis: In 1898, the British fought a war to uphold the freedom of Afrikaners of the Republic Foreign State. This war would later prove to have an enormous impact on the Apartheid movement. The South African Republic had experienced a hardening of Afrikaner attitudes toward immigrants, and decided to act on their feelings. Thus, perpetuating the reelected president, Jameson Kruger to protect what was of immense importance to the Afrikaners Republic sovereign state: nationalism. Linguistically, the British wanted to establish an English speaking presence. This resulted in an Afrikaner, national movement—to prevent such an act. The time had come for the Afrikaners to ensure their future and defend, land, gold, and exploitation of their labor. Furthermore, Africans had to determine in fact, which side they would choose, if any' Would it be the Afrikaner’s, or the British that Africans would side with' Both sides obviously were oppressive. The Africans decision would have to be based on which side was less oppressive. Ultimately, the war was fought to guard African citizen rights. Moreover, for control of the state, including; wealth, land, gold, and silver. In fact, if the Afrikaner’s were to side with anyone, british, war, afrikaner’s, africans, transvaal, state, side, republic, uitlanders, gold, boer, afrikaners, threat, south, sides, rights, posed, oppressive, lesser, land, jameson, independence, fought, fact, determination, both, apartheid, after, afrikaner, african, act, while, wealth, wanted, uprising