| The first major activity of the new federation was to send Australian troops to South Africa to fight the Boers. |
| The Boers or Afrikaners, as the descendants of the Dutch called themselves, ceded the Cape to Great Britain in an 1814 treaty. |
| The Ngoni, originally from South Africa, escaped from the Boers and Zulus and settled in Eastern Zambia. |
| Events in South Africa were not dissimilar, but were complicated by the presence of the Boers. |
| The war arose from rivalry between Britain's claim to be the paramount power in southern Africa and the desire of the Boers for autonomy. |
| The Zulu War reminds one of similar discreditable campaigns against the Dervishes, Afghans, Boers and Maoris. |
