Southern Africa. He planned to rule the former
republics autocratically, without popular participation,
until he had dena-
tionalized the Afrikaners and swamped them with British settlers. When
that was done, and not before then, it would be safe and expedient to
introduce
representative
institutions.
Finally, he planned
that the an-
glicized former republics should join the Cape Colony and Natal in a self-
governing dominion that would be a source of economic as well as political
strength to Great Britain.r'?
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