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152 Dr. John Coleman
In the 1830s the farmers at the Cape (known as Boers)
moved into the vast, uninhabited hinterland in what became
known as The Great Trek. They were angered by British
interference in their lives, particularly the freeing of slaves. They
overcame great hardships traveling a thousand miles in ox
wagons often over rugged mountains, and settled on the barren
land of what was to become the Orange Free State and Transvaal
Republics.
When huge finds of diamond and gold occurred, the
barren lands were immediately coveted by the Rothschilds who
sent an agent in the person of Cecil John Rhodes to tie up
possession and control in their name. In 1898, Rhodes, the agent
for the Rothschilds in South Africa, requested Lord Rothschild to
buy out French interests in the diamond mines, setting the stage
for complete control by the Rothschilds.
The British Government "annexed" an area of the
Orange Free State known as Griqualand West (the location of the
diamond finds) and three years later annexed the Transvaal,
although in both cases they had no lawful or legitimate claim to
the land whatsoever, a tactic they were to use again in Palestine
in 1917. (The Balfour Declaration)
Cecil Rhodes was the chief instigator of the Boer War.
The fabulous gold fields of rich veins, which extended for 200
miles from East to West, was a glittering prize the Rothschilds
were determined to acquire. Friction with Britain became endemic
as the Boers refused to recognize Queen Victoria's bogus claims
to the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republics.
A clear provocation was the raid by 600 armed men under
Starr Jameson in an attempt to overthrow the Boer Government of
President Paul Kruger.
It was a prelude to the Anglo-Boer War, which broke out
in 1899, after the machinations of Rhodes to achieve the desired
goals of the British Government to seize the gold and diamond
fields, failed.