What indigenous people were the Boers fighting?
What indigenous people were the Boers fighting? Cape Frontier Wars (1779–1879) The migration of the trekboers from the Cape Colony into the Eastern Cape parts of South Africa, where the Xhosa people had established settlements, gave rise to a series of conflicts between the Boers and the Xhosas. What happened to the Boers in South Africa? The Boers eventually moved beyond the Orange and Vaal rivers and established the Orange Free State and the South African Republic. The British recognised the independence of the South African Republic in 1852 and the Orange Free State in 1854. Why did the Zulus...