Treaty of Vereeniging

The Peace of Vereeniging was signed in Vereeniging ( Transvaal ) between the British government and the leaders of the Boers on 31 May 1902. He ended the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902 ).

The agreement guaranteed the freedom from persecution for the Afrikaner participants in the war and made the transition from the military administration to a civilian government in the Orange Free State and the Transvaal in view. Afrikaans was admitted as an official language in schools and for negotiations with the court. The self-administration was realized with the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910.

The signatories included Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener and Lord Alfred Milner for the British government as well as for the Boers, among other things, the generals Christiaan De Wet, Louis Botha Koos de la Rey and James Barry Hertzog Munnick.