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Updated: May 19, 2025
In spite of disquieting news from the Free State, Lord Roberts remained firm in his purpose of advancing on Pretoria without delay. Not only was it the head quarters of Krugerism, but also the place in which the Boer harvest of war more than 4,000 British prisoners, some of whom had been in captivity since the day of Talana Hill was garnered.
That's because any woman could trust you as I do. Good-bye." In another moment she had gone, and he stood beside the table with the envelope she had left with him. Presently he opened it, and unfolded the cheque which was in it. Then he gave an exclamation of astonishment. "Seven thousand pounds!" he exclaimed. "That's a better estimate of Krugerism than I thought she had.
'This successful anti-British policy of Kruger created a number of imitators Steyn, Fischer, Esselen, Smuts, and numerous other young educated Africanders of the Transvaal, Orange Free State, and the Cape Colony, who, misled by his successes, ambitiously hoped by the same means to raise themselves to the same pinnacle. 'Krugerism under them developed into a reign of terror.
Yet, as far as the British Indians are concerned, the end of it all has been that their lot in the Transvaal since it became a British Colony is harder than it was In the old Kruger days, and the British colonists in the Transvaal, who were ready enough to use Indian grievances as a stick with which to beat Krugerism, have now joined hands with the Dutch in refusing to redress them.
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