Everybody knows that doughty but ineffectual little bands, such as Novelist Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's Liberal Party, have long opposed the South African government's all-out ...

The South African War (also known as the Second Boer War) between the British and the ancestors of European immigrants (Boers) living in the South African Republic, took place from 1899 to 1902.

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Field Marshal Smuts is Prime Minister of a country split into sharp oppositions: pro-war and antiwar, pro-British and anti-British, 8,000,000 underprivileged natives and 2,000,000 privileged whites.