Boer War legacy

In my study of the History of the Cape Corps I was surprised to find the general commanding the British (Empire) forces in East Africa was Jannie Smuts from South Africa. What intrigued me was that, WW1 started in 1914, and thirteen years previously, Jannie Smuts had been ambushing and killing Redcoats with gusto. What had happened in the meantime? It turned out that, because of the generosity of the Brits at the negotiating table, a section of the Boers felt they had been given their land back, not just their land, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republics, but the thing they had dreamed of, a united South Africa from the Limpopo to the Cape and they felt an obligation to support their benefactors.

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