CHAPTER IX 
RHODESIA 
Tae future of South Africa is intimately bound up with that 
of the native protectorates. To understand their signifi- 
cance, one must go back to the early eighties for a moment. 
In those days the relations between the native chieftains and 
the British and the Boer colonies were a constant source of 
trouble and irritation to the Imperial Government as well as 
to the colonial authorities. As has been shown above, the 
Home Government’s policy in these matters was almost con- 
tinually one of protection for the natives and of suspicion of 
the motives and acts of the colonists as well as of apparent 
indifference to their interests. Another element of discord 
was introduced when the Transvaal Boers attempted to ex- 
pand their state by the annexation of the neighboring native 
states. In 1882, the “Stellaland” and “Goshen” republics 
were set up by the Boers, who also established Dinizulu, son 
of Cetywayo, as king in the “New Republic” on his father’s 
lands, in May, 1884, and attempted to penetrate into 
Bechuanaland as well. Great Britain recognized these new 
organizations and permitted them all to be incorporated 
within the Transvaal by 1888; but, after the Boer War, in 
1903, the “New Republic” — known as the “Vryheid Dis- 
trict” — was transferred, together with the Utrecht District 
and a part of Wakkerstrom, to Natal, to which Zululand had 
already been annexed in 1897. And to-day, the minister of 
native affairs of Natal, with the aid of commissioners and 
native chieftains, rules these districts. 
Meanwhile, aroused by the entrance of Germany into 
Southwest Africa in 1884, and the pushing of the Boers west-