ABSTRACT
The relations between the Transvaal and the British Government were further embittered by a quarrel over the official name of the Transvaal. The colonial policy of Lord Carnarvon had assumed that the Home Government, being paramount, could actively exercise its power in South Africa, even against the will of any single community. A new phenomenon dissuaded the British Government all the more from an active conduct in South African affairs. It was the growth of Africander sentiment throughout South Africa after the Transvaal War. The decision of the British Government to take over Basutoland from the Cape confirmed once again its territorial integrity. The subsequent economic and social development of South Africa has never ceased to testify to the wisdom of a policy that thus preserved a great tribe from the loss of its land. In both the practice and the theory of the modern Empire the idea of trusteeship is of paramount importance.
