Alfred Milner
… Colony when the latter resigned in 1897. He was appointed by Joseph Chamberlain, at the time the Colonial Secretary in … aftermath of the Jameson Raid , the abortive coup mounted by Leander Starr Jameson in cahoots with Cecil John Rhodes … moves that would make Cape Afrikaners enter the war on the side of the Boers. He wrote to Prime Minister Selborne: ‘The …