Question

The 1899 political cartoon by J. M. Staniforth depicting Transvaal President Paul Kruger attempting to appease Uitlanders.
Why was the then president of Transvaal trying to appease the Uitlanders? Select the appropriate options:

• A. Paul Kruger didn't want to start an all-out war against the Britishers, so he tried to increase the number of Britishers who were enfranchised to vote.
• B. Paul Kruger also wanted the taxation on the Boers by the British to reduce so he tried to appease the Uitlanders by reducing the residency requirement to be able to vote in the State of Transvaal.
• C. Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain and other British officers used the denial of rights to the uitlanders as their main point of attack against the Transvaal.
• D. The Transvaal government passed a series of legislation in beginning in 1890 refusing voting rights or citizenship to any uitlander who had not been resident for fourteen years and who was over 40 years of age.

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (C), (D)

The Transvaal government passed a series of legislation in beginning in 1890 refusing voting rights or citizenship to any uitlander who had not been resident for fourteen years and who was over 40 years of age.

The cartoon depicted in the question is of the Transvaal President Paul Kruger attempting to appease uitlanders by reducing the residency requirement for voting rights. Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain is staring at the two men with his arms crossed in the background.

The appeasement in reducing the residency requirements to vote was because the disenfranchisement, together with high taxation gave rise to considerable discontent. Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain and other British officers denied rights to the uitlanders as their main point of attack against the Transvaal. The British miners, denied their political rights, waged war on the Boers. This war was called the Boer War and lasted three years from 1899-1902.