DIAMONDS,GOLD,AND BRITISHIMPERIALISM
became prime minister of a British dominion with a population of4 million
Africans, 500,000
Coloureds,
150,000
Indians, and
1,275,000
Whites.
That outcome was not what Milner had encouraged British South Africans
to expect; nor was it what had been expected by the many black South
Africans who had supported the British cause in the war.
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