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The Volksraad from Winburg was transferred to Potchefstroom and the South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek; the ZAR) was established as the name of the new country. [2]: 231 The Boer Republics were predominately Calvinist Protestant due to their Dutch heritage, and this played a significant role in their culture.
The uitlander problem and the associated tensions between the South African Republic and Britain led to the Jameson Raid of 1895–96 and ultimately the Second Boer War of 1899–1902. [9] Following the British victory in the latter and the Treaty of Vereeniging , the Free State and the Transvaal were annexed by Britain as the Orange River ...
The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje Vrijstaat [oːˈrɑɲə ˈvrɛistaːt]; Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat [uəˈraɲə ˈfrɛistɑːt]) was an independent Boer-ruled sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902.
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Goshen, officially known as the State of Goshen (Dutch: Het Land Goosen), was a short-lived Boer republic in southern Africa founded by Boers expanding west from Transvaal who opposed British advance in the region.
The Republic of Graaff-Reinet (Afrikaans: [χrɑːf 'rɛɪnɛt]) was from 1795 to 1796 a self-proclaimed Boer republic that existed in and around the city of Graaff-Reinet in present-day South Africa. [2] It was named after Cornelis Jacob van de Graaff and his wife, Cornelia Reynet. History
The Republic of Zoutpansberg was a Boer Republic in Northern South Africa from 1849 to 1864, [1] when it incorporated into the South African Republic due to the Transvaal Civil War. [ 2 ] [ circular reference ]
They contend that the Boers of the South African Republic and Orange Free State republics were recognised as a separate people or cultural group under international law by the Sand River Convention (which created the South African Republic in 1852), [27] the Bloemfontein Convention (which created the Orange Free State Republic in 1854), the ...