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The Palgrave Commission was a Commission set up by the government of the Cape Colony in 1876. The goal of the commission was to see the best way find stability in the regions of Damaraland and Namaqualand (modern day-Namibia). The commission returned to recommend that the Cape Colony annex South West Africa, yet due to a breakdown in relations between the Cape and British, the plan never occurred. However, what might have happened if the breakdown never occurred and the Palgrave Commission succeeded.