The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs

The author offers an insider account of political life in the Transvaal, tracing tensions between Boer authorities and English-speaking immigrants, the emergence and dilemmas of the Reform Committee, the armed incursion known as the Jameson Raid, and the arrests, trials, and prison conditions that followed, together with a subsequent three-year period of enforced silence. The narrative is supplemented by chapters and appendices that compile earlier history, constitutional conventions, parliamentary debates, reports, and manifestos to explain franchise disputes and administrative practice. The work sets out the Uitlander case while assembling documentary material intended to clarify contested facts.