Overview
Describe the economic developments in south Africa; explain the early attempts to halt the trend leading to apartheid; discuss the failure of the liberal movement in South Africa.
What you'll learn
- Economic developments in South Africa from 1870s e.g. discovery of mineral.
- Britain in South Africa and Boer intransigence.
- The cause and course of the Boer war.
- British public opinion on the Boer war.
- Decline of the liberal spirit in South Africa, the Union of 1910 and the exclusion of non-white population from government.