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Excerpt from The Boers and the Uitlanders
The existing government was Of a crude and patriarchal type, utterly un suited to the new situation. In fact, Of government up to that time, there had been practically none. The state was unable to collect its taxes, - for the Boers would not pay them; the Treasury was chronically empty; the few govern ment officials did not receive their sal aries; - the pasturage Of the country was scant and uncertain; and the Boer farmers were ever ready to trek off to better pastures in the North and East and to leave the Transvaal Officials to shift for themselves. Neither President Kruger nor his Boers had the education or experience which would enable them to work out the questions which arose when the Uitlanders came in. A very small percentage of the Boers could even read or write.
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