‘A census taken throughout the Civil Service has shown that eighty-three per cent. are South African born, and seventeen per cent. Uitlanders. Naturally, the latter are selected from those who can speak the language of the country.
‘Before I come to the other three grievances, I must set right the grossly exaggerated figures which are given in the English Press as affecting the population in the Transvaal.
‘Mr Rhodes, in his cabled letter to the New York World, gives them as 100,000 English against 14,000 Boers! Now the
ACTUAL FIGURES
from quite recent compilations are:—
| Total inhabitants, | 226,028 |
| Of which Transvaal born, | 150,308 |
| And Uitlanders of all nationalities, | 75,720 |
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| Of these again are English, | 41,275 |
| And of all other nationalities, including those from Cape Colony and Natal, | 34,445 |
‘These figures, which are correct, make the absurdity of the political claim clear, but more clear still if you deduct from the 75,720 Uitlanders the 60,000 who dwell at Johannesburg and its mining district; if you eliminate that one town from the total, you have the Boers numbering ten to one against the Uitlanders throughout the country. And would you have a country ruled in language, franchise and education by one mining town.
‘To prove the correctness of the above statement you have only to consider that there are on the
MILITARY REGISTER
over 25,000 Boers. Every one of them is married, and most of them have children, the average being over four children, which gives the 150,000 souls.