The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
… team were Boers, most of them from the Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State. In both these parts of the … resources of gold and diamond in the Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State led to the loss of over … and Steynburg — named after Paul Kruger, president of Transvaal, , and his counterpart in Orange Free State, …