This coverage was intensified considerably when Lord Kitchener took over from Roberts as commander in November 1900. Homesteads and entire towns were being burnt down even if there was no attack on any railway. In this way almost all Boer homesteads – about thirty 000 in all – were razed on the ground and Many livestock killed. The 2 republics

The mine is operated with 3 shafts using blast gap stoping with cemented backfill. The ore is shipped for the Kidd Creek Metallurgical Division at Hoyle, Situated 27km south-east, for processing. T. Jabavu, a newspaper editor and Reverend Walter Rubusana, a Congregationalist minister, despatched a Cape Coloured deputation plus a Bantu deputation