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The Boers had cut their ties to Europe as they emerged from the Trekboer group. [24] The Boers possessed a distinct Protestant culture, and the majority of Boers and their descendants were members of a Reformed Church. The Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk ('Dutch Reformed Church') was the national Church of the South African Republic (1852–1902).
The New Republic (comprising the town of Vryheid) was established in 1884 on land given to the local Boers by the Zulu King Dinuzulu, the son of Cetshwayo, after he recruited local Boers to fight on his side. The Boers were promised and granted land for their services and were led by Louis Botha who would go on to prominence during the second ...
The vast majority of Boers who remained in the local camps were women and children. Between 18,000 and 26,000 boers perished in these concentration camps due to diseases. [10] The camps were poorly administered from the outset, and they became increasingly overcrowded when Lord Kitchener's troops implemented the internment strategy on a vast scale.
In the Cape Midlands, the Boers did not exploit the British defeat at Stormberg and were prevented from capturing the railway junction at Colesberg. In the dry summer, the grazing on the veld became parched, weakening the Boers' horses and draught oxen, and many Boer families joined their menfolk in the siege lines and laagers (encampments ...
Livingstone and many others criticised the Boers for abducting women and children from tribal settlements and taking them home to work as slaves. [39] The Boers argued that they did not keep these captives as slaves but as inboekelings—indentured "apprentices" who, having lost their families, were given bed, board and training in a Boer ...
The British authorities were adamantly opposed to the Boers' ownership of slaves and what was perceived as their unduly harsh treatment of the indigenous peoples. [11] The British government insisted that the Cape finance its own affairs through self-taxation, an approach which was alien to both the Boers and the Dutch merchants in Cape Town. [2]
The practice of tipping came to the US before the Civil War. Afterward, it became popular in part because it allowed employers to not pay former slaves.
West Transvaal Boers and others procured women and children as slaves and used them as domestic servants and plantation workers. [26] Boer slave raids in the South African Republic were regular and the number captured totaled in the thousands. [26] This is despite the prohibition of slavery north of the Vaal River under the 1852 Sand River ...