On the Fact that it Wasn't Until the Boers Discovered Gold and Diamonds in the Transvaal and Orange Free State that the British Showed the Slightest Interest in this Area

They of course came up with a litany of bogus reasons for starting this war (the second Boer War) and gadzooks does that ever sound familiar, eh?.......................................................................................................P.S. And, yes, by war I'm referring to hundreds of thousands of British soldiers getting spanked by a bunch of farmers and only prevailing via a scorched-earth policy that rivaled that of the Cossacks during Napoleon's invasion of Russia and a concentration camp program that killed close to 30,000 women and children. In case there's any confusion.