 After the defeat and pacification of the Arusha and Meru populations, the Germans confiscated much of the best land from the people and allocated it to a number of German settlers and 100 Afrikaner families from South Africa.During the first world war the British managed to capture Arusha territory in 1916.By 1917 the British expelled the German settlers, confiscating their farms and redistributing them to Greek and British settlers.