sentences:  However, the Treaty of Vereeniging established the framework of South African limited independence as the Union of South Africa.At the tip of the continent, the British found an established colony with 25,000 slaves, 20,000 white colonists, 15,000 Khoisan, and 1,000 freed black slaves.Power resided solely with a white élite in Cape Town, and differentiation on the basis of race was deeply entrenched.