Could the Boers Win?

Well the thing is Smuts, Botha etc all did an about face turn and just adapted you know? It's like you live in a city taken over by the mongols and you're a craftsman. You either adapt or you die (like Kruger did, living out his days in exile in the Netherlands).
 
It's like you live in a city taken over by the mongols and you're a craftsman. You either adapt or you die
But one of the major factors behind the war- the only one in the British ultimatum- was the Boer refusal to grant civil rights to British immigrants on the grounds that they feared their control over the two republics would be jeopardised. The ultimate result of the war is an Afrikaner party running the whole of South Africa, with a Boer general as president. A more accurate comparison would be a craftsman living in a city taken over by the Mongols, when days later the entire horde decides to jack in the steppe nomad life and take up shoemaking instead.
 
Gotta be honest not contesting it. I always felt the Afrikaners won from within, just think the hardcore never surrender crew out in the Veldt wanted nobody to speak English :D
 
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