The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… was done to out-manoeuvre both the "Free State" and the Transvaal, both of whom claimed it for obvious reasons. With … Campbell lands, while M. W. Pretorius, President of the Transvaal, gave his illegal blessing to the "Diamond Fields … of such chiefs as desired to be taken over." The Transvaal claims were brushed aside. Then, on the strength of …