What Role Did Africans Play On The Side Of The Boers

Question 1

What did the British and the Boers do during the war

Answer 1

They employed friendly Africans as non combats

The Boers however dis not pay Afriacn for their services

Question 2

Why did the Africans going the boer side

Answer 2

They were personal servants to Boers

They were conscripted into military service so had no choice but to join them

Question 3

What would the Africans do

Answer 3

Dig trenches,drive wagons and scout

Is few cases Africans on the Boer side were allowed to carry weapons

Question 4

Who were agetrryers?what would they do

Answer 4

Best labourers (men) farmers took out on commando with them 
They would look after and guard the horses,fetch water,build fires and often did the cooking

Question 5

What what agterryers do that affected the Boers?number of agterryers on the Boer side

Answer 5

Some time agterryers would desert their Boer employer and going the British
They would then share their knowledge of where the Boers were based during the war
Since agterryers were not counted as a part of the Boer fighting force there us no official record of their numbers. However,diaries and other informal Boer sources show that friends and relatives often shared the service of w single agterryer and it estimated approximately 15 000 were on the Boer side