Johannes Henricus Brand
… and the elite were mainly prosperous wool farmers. Bloemfontein was the centre of the republic, which had become … Basutoland, thereby reversing the policy set out in the Bloemfontein Convention . Brand tore up the peace treaties of … where relations between Boer and Briton were concerned. In Bloemfontein, the use of English, rather than Afrikaans, was …