South African

Question 1

What did admiral Lord fisher, first sea lord, say about South Africa at beginning of 1900s

Answer 1

One of the ‘five strategic keys lock up the world’

Question 2

Dominant race of South Africa

Answer 2

Bóer

First arrived to cape in 1652

Question 3

What did boers have that British didn’t

Answer 3

Firm Calvinist faith that made them believe they were chosen to be masters of a new Canaan
Gave them extraordinary resilience

Question 4

Lord carnarvon wanted what

Answer 4

Confederation in South Africa to prevent “rising if Kaffirdon against white civilisation”
“To give South Africa not what it wanted, but what he considered it ought to wang”

Question 5

Which administrators did Carnarvon send

Answer 5

Theophilus Shepstone

Heber Bartle Frere

Question 6

Shepstone date of annexing Transvaal

Answer 6

12th April 1877 Shepstone annexed Transvaal into British empire

Question 7

When did Zulu war begin

Answer 7

Janurary 1879

Question 8

Zulús with speared killed by English with guns easy defeat

How many zulus killed

Answer 8

1,000

Question 9

Rhodes company

Answer 9

British South Africa company

Question 10

Jameson Raif date

Answer 10

Began 29th December 1895