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From 1875 onward, the British plotted, against the Orange Free State Republic. Lord Carnarvonrepresented the British Government, and Sir Theophilus Shepstone was the Governor of Natal(which the British had annexed uninvitedly from what had been the Calvinistic White SouthAfrican Natalia Republic). Those two British "noblemen" plotted with one another against theOrange Free State Republic -- even though her freedom from Britain had been guaranteed by theBritish at the Sand River Convention of 1852!They attacked the Orange Free State, and even especially the South African Republic to the northof the Vaal River. This led to the First South African War. The British defeated the South Afrîcans,but in 1881 the South Africans rose again against the British. After bloody battles, they defeated theBritish -- at the battle of Majuba and elsewhere. Wiping out the British armies, the South Africansregained their independence. This was recognised at the London Convention in 1884.Then a brand new factor entered onto the scene in 1885. All the European powers wanted a slice ofAfrica. The Portuguese had long colonised Angola and Mozambique in Southern Africa. TheBritish had grabbed pieces in the southwest (the Cape Colony) and the southeast (Natal). TheBelgians grabbed the Congo. The French had carved out for thernselves large portions of West andCentral Africa. Now the Germans decided that they wanted a slice of the pie too.So the Germans started a colony in what is today Tanzania. It was then called Tanganyika -- on theeast coast of Africa. Another colony -- German South West Africa -- was established on the westcoast of Southern Africa (in the area today called Namibia).It was the aim of the Germans to drive a wedge from their western colony of South West Africathrough central Africa -- in order to link up with their eastern colony in Tanganyika (and to cut offthe northward expansion of their British rivals from the Cape Colony). Cecil John Rhodes, theBritish Governor in Cape Town, wanted to drive his wedge for Britain -- from Cape Town in thesouth, all the way through to Cairo in the north. So the race was now on, as to whether the Germanswould cut Africa in two from west to east -- before the British cut Africa in two from north to south(also to prevent the link-up of the German colonies).Unfortunately for the British, an independent Calvinist Republic stood in the way. It wascommanded by the colossal figure of Paul Kruger -- the dour Calvinist President of the SouthAfrican Republic. It would not permit the British troops to march through its territory -- also onaccount of the wars of defence it had previously fought against the British on several occasions.
Famous Boer Generals, left to right: Gen. Christiaan de Wet, Gen. Jacobus de la Rey, andGen. Louis BothaThe British were irked. They saw the time passing away -- as the Germans were linking up Africafrom east to west. So finally, as the tension constantly increased; and as more and more foreignersseeking gold and making their fortunes poured into the South African Republic; and as discontentwas fomented there more and more -- it became dear that a showdown was ahead between theSouth African Republic and the Orange Free State Republic on the one hand, and the BritishEmpire (of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Canada, India, Australia and New Zealand) on theother.War broke out on October 11th 1899. It was a war between the whole British Empire on the onehand, and the tiny little South African Republic and the Orange Free State Republic on the otherhand. The war lasted three years. Britain fielded one quarter of a million troops in the course of thethree years. There were never more than twenty thousand poorly armed farmers on the side of theSouth Africans -- to oppose a quarter of a million troops from what was then the greatest militarymachine in the world.That's a pretty great disproportion! The amazing thing is that the war lasted for as long as threeyears. Yet General Smuts, of whom I shall say something in the next lecture or two, became soadept at guerilla warfare that he even invaded the Cape -- and got to within sight of Cape Town.But the war finally ground to its end, as the White South Africans were starved out of supplies andfood.The British had moved onto their farms. They had burnt them down to the ground. They hadherded up the women and the children of the South African soldiers (who were away fighting at thefront) into concentration camps behind barbed wire. Some say they even gave them doses of coppersulphate. At any rate, 26 400 White South African Calvinist women and children perishedmiserably -- a huge slice of such a tiny nation -- in the British concentration camps. The SouthAfricans were finally defeated, succumbing with just a few armed farmers to the entire cream of thesoldiery of the mighty British Empire.So it seemed in 1902 that Calvinism was finished in South Africa -- at the "Calvary" of the SouthAfrican and the Orange Free State Republics. Yet, commemorating these events, there are two
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This Brummer just referred to, is a
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Man was to rejoice in this nature (
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enhanced. For, in the present, man
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World War II when he was hiding fro
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glory.There are also Christian psyc
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well known -- is being pioneered in
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people in South Africa. The South A
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nature and of human culture (Prover
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