Some limited civil rights were extended to the Khoekhoen, but the genocidal extermination of the San continued throughout the period, particularly in Boer regions.
British attempts to impose suzerainty on the Transvaal Republic resulted in the First Boer War, during which British Colonial authorities were comprehensively expelled from their occupation.
And, as we shall see, an ill-judged attempt to intervene in the affairs of the Boer Republics would spell doom for Rhodes' political career in two decades' time.
After narrowly losing a by-election in Oldham, he returned to the journalistic fray as a war correspondent in South Africa for the Morning Post during the second Boer war of 1899-1902.