The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction

On the last day of May 1902 the signature at Pretoria of the conditions of peace brought to an end a war which had lasted for nearly three years, and had among other things destroyed a government, dissolved a society, and laid waste a country. In those last months of fighting so-me progress had been made with the reconstruction-at least with that not unimportant branch of it which is con-cerned with the machinery of government. A working administration had been put together, new ordinances ...