Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… so the British were less interested in ruling over the Transvaal, which, being a white state, was granted more … states that had been conquered. During their rule in the Transvaal, the British had defeated the Northern Sotho (the … had resisted the Boer armies. The failed annexation of the Transvaal (1877-81) was to be followed in 1899-1902 by the …