The Cold War

Our last instalment ended with Marthinus Wessel Pretorius having emerged as the new supreme Commandant-General of the Transvaal Boers following the July 23, 1853 death of his father Andries.

From the outset the younger Pretorius proved energetic in his efforts to realise his father’s vision of uniting the interior Boers into a “South African Republic” (“Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek” or ZAR).

In the aftermath of Sechele’s return from Cape Town, Pretorius was determined to consolidate Jan Viljoen’s tenuous ceasefire agreement into a more durable peace. In this respect, he recognised that securing the ZAR western border was prerequisite for his broader political ambitions.

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