It promised that the “dilemma of granting the franchise to natives [Blacks]” could well be addressed only soon after self-government had been restored to the previous Boer republics. The treaty So permitted the white minority to determine the political fate with the Black majority. So

This coverage was intensified considerably when Lord Kitchener took over from Roberts as commander in November 1900. Homesteads and total towns were burnt down even though there was no attack on any railway. In this way Virtually all Boer homesteads – about 30 000 in all – had been razed