the British) to unite in support of a new political movement, Het Yolk (The
People). In the Orange River Colony, Abraham Fischer and J. B. M.
Hertzog
founded
a similar organization,
the Orangia
Unie (Orange
Unionl.l" 'Cleavages would soon open among these leaders and their fol-
lowers, but so long as Milner was high commissioner they pulled together
in demanding self-government.
While Afrikaners were moving closer together, South Africans of British
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