Though the British swiftly occupied the Boer republics, numerous Boers refused to accept defeat and engaged in guerrilla warfare. Negotiations failed and, in the opening stages of the war, the Boers launched successful attacks against British outposts before being pushed back by imperial reinforcements. They were not permitted to have a vote, and were regarded as 'unwelcome visitors', invaders, and they protested to the British authorities in the Cape. The Witwatersrand Gold Rush caused a large influx of 'foreigners' to the South African Republlic, mostly British from the Cape Colony. 'Second Freedom War', 11 October 1899 – ), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the South African Republic and the Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa from 1899 to 1902. The Second Boer War ( Afrikaans: Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, lit.
24,000 captured (sent overseas) : 79Ģ6,370 Boer women and children died in concentration campsĢ0,000+ Africans of the 115,000 interned in separate concentration camps.
