News of gold unfold swiftly and arrived at Cecil Rhodes in Kimberley. Rhodes and his companion Robinson, with a group of companions, ended up curious and rode over 400 km to Bantjes' camp at Vogelstruisfontein, where they stayed with him for two nights near what would later turn into Roodep

It promised that the “concern of granting the franchise to natives [Blacks]” will be addressed only after self-government were restored to the former Boer republics. The treaty Hence permitted the white minority to determine the political fate on the Black majority. The knowledge will