Treaty Of Vereeniging

This settlement provided for the end of hostilities and eventual self-government to the Transvaal and the Orange Free State as Colonies of the British Empire . The Afrikaner republics agreed to come under the sovereignty of the British monarch and the British government agreed on various details including the following:
# To eventually give Transvaal and the Orange Free State self-government (granted in 1906 and 1907 , respectively).
# To not discuss the native enfranchisement issue until self-government had been given (not achieved until 1994 ).
# To pay the Afrikaners £3,000,000 in reconstruction aid.
# To only imprison Cape Afrikaner rebel leaders.
# To allow the use of Dutch (later Afrikaans ) in the schools and law courts, etc.

Subsequent to the British government giving the Boer colonies self-government, the Union Of South Africa was created on 31 May 1910 . It later gained complete independence under the 1926 Imperial Conference and the 1931 Statute Of Westminster . It became a republic in 1961 .

Although the treaty is named after the town of Vereeniging , where the peace negotiations took place, it was actually signed at Melrose House in Pretoria .

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