The Afrikaner Bond
… and Natal, and the two republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Until then, Afrikaners had little or no … , to establish independent republics in the north, the Orange Free State and the Zuid Afrikaansche Republic (ZAR, or … expedition annexed the territory south of the Molopo river, Bechuanaland, west of the Transvaal, and denied the …