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Assessment comments The following comments were left by the assessors: (edit · refresh) [edit] Quality The quality of this article is more than stub, but less than B-class. I therefore downgraded it in the former countries template as well. The main problem is with references and footnotes, of which there are neither. Thus B-class is not an option. Also the article lacks balance and needs to be brought in line with the article on Transvaal as well as with a new article on Transvaal Colony (1900-1910). Michel Doortmont (talk) 13:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Strange sequence of events

"In 1877, after the 1886 Witwatersrand_Gold_Rush, Britain annexed the Transvaal." This seems very unlogical, unless a time machine was involved. However I do not know what was meant or whether the Witwatersrand Gold Rush should be mentioned elsewhere, and I do not wish to delete it altogether, as it may be important. I am not sufficiently familiar with this episode of history, so I hope someone else can look at it. Tom 16:47, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Response: The article needs to clarify that there were two mineral rushes to the Trans-Orange interior -- the first was the diamond rush to the Kimberley area in the mid 1860s; the second was the gold rush to the Witwatersrand. Arguably, the first annexation of the Transvaal was related to a broader effort by the British to get control of the diamond producing areas and their hinterland, which effort also involved displacing the mixed race chiefdom of the Griqua/Bastaards. This needs a little more elaboration.

172.132.7.14 (talk) 12:56, 4 May 2008 (UTC)HamdenRice

[edit] Afrikaner/Boer to Boer

I changed "Afrikaner/Boer ruled" to delete "Afrikaner" as this was inaccurate or at least anachronistic. The people were not known as Afrikaners at the time, and neither did they describe themselves as such. Booshank (talk) 23:26, 11 June 2008 (UTC)