Pretoria Convention

The Pretoria Convention was the peace treaty that ended the First Boer War (16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881) between the Transvaal Boers and the United Kingdom. The treaty was signed in Pretoria on 3 August, 1881, but was subject to ratification by the Volksraad within 3 months from the date of signature. The Volksraad first raised objections to a number of the clauses of the treaty, but did eventually ratify the version signed in Pretoria, after Britain refused any further concessions or changes to the treaty.^[1]

British preparation work for the Pretoria Convention of 1881 was done at Newcastle.^[2]

Under this agreement, the South African Republic regained self-government under nominal British suzerainty.

This Convention was superseded in 1884 by the London Convention.^[3]

Background

Main article: First Anglo-Boer War

By the time of the Battle of Majuba, the governments of the South African Republic and the United Kingdom were in contact, President Brand of the Orange Free State acting as intermediary.

References

1. ^ Haggard, H. Rider (1900). "VI - The Retrocession of the Transvaal". The last Boer war. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. pp. 188–192. http://www.archive.org/details/lastboerwar00hridrich. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 
2. ^ Theal, George McCall (1919). History of South Africa, from 1873 to 1884, twelve eventful years, with continuation of the history of Galekaland, Tembuland, Pondoland, and Bethshuanaland until the annexation of those territories to the Cape Colony, and of Zululand until its annexation to Natal. London: Allen. pp. 129. http://www.archive.org/details/historyofsouthaf02theauoft. Retrieved 2009-08-20. 
3. ^ Forbes, Avary William Holmes (1910). A history of the British Dominions beyond the seas (1558-1910). London: Holland. pp. 208. http://www.archive.org/details/britishdominions00forb. Retrieved 2009-08-20.