The Rand capitalists and the coming of the South African war 1896–1899

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The exploitation of the Transvaal's Witwatersrand gold fields after 1886 stimulated political and economic developments which were to transform the South African Republic (the least developed of the South African states and colonies) and ultimately the entire subcontinent. The intrusion of a large, alien Uitlander population was the most noticeable dimension of change.