Second Boer War: Difference between revisions

* [[Grey and Grey Morality]]: Britain was the most benign of the Imperial powers, but even if their rule brought prosperity to the regions they governed the process left a lot of social problems when they left, and there was always a gap between the lofty ideals the government claimed as its reasoning and the business interests in the colonies it usually sided with. Likewise, it wasn't the British who instituted apartheid and its precursor policies, but the ''Boers'' once they managed to take over the administration of British South Africa from the inside.

** The relationship between the Boers and the English was never particularly good. Novels such as 'Kringe In Die Bos' and 'Fiela Se Kind' shows the Boers living in the Cape Colonies as poor, uneducated manual labour being looked down at and exploited by the rich English land owners.

** Baden Powell founder of the Boy Scouts.

* [[The Siege]]: The first two years of the war were dominated by this. The 'good guys' [[Your Mileage May Vary|are who you think they are]].