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They set up two fiercely independent republics in the South African heartland: the Orange Free State and the Transvaal.
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In 1895, the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal to aid the Uitlanders (mainly British settlers) in the Boer republic, began.
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The town of Rustenberg sprang up and, just to the north, the president of the Transvaal, Paul Kruger, bought a farm.
BBC: Africa's bright future
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None of this seemed to be in Mr Dube's future when he was born, the sickly first son of a single mother on a run-down farm in East Transvaal.
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