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Transvaal by telling certain stories of a personal character.
The temptation to deal with some of the many matters I have seen mishandled by other authors has been very great but I have resisted it, rigorously confining my records or criticisms to matters with which I have been in immediate personal contact. I have been most careful, in collecting any evidence I may have used, to distinguish between hearsay and direct know ledge, and I have introduced no matter of which I cannot speak with absolute authority. I have in my possession ample documentary evidence for all my principal statements, and much more.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book describes the experiences of an English-born Colonial who, in the 1880s, left his position as a stationmaster in Cape Colony to become the first Gold Commissioner of the new De Kaap Gold Fields in the Transvaal. The author provides an excellent account of the social and political conditions in the newly formed republic, which at the time was bankrupt and yet possessed vast, untapped mineral wealth that the European powers were eager to exploit. As the book progresses, the author uses his personal experiences to critique the Transvaal government, which he found to be corrupt, inefficient, and autocratic, with the cynical President Paul Kruger at its heart. The author concludes that for all its faults, the Transvaal had the potential to be a great nation, and he laments the fact that the Boer leaders squandered this potential and ultimately brought about the country's downfall. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781332050031_0
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