Second Boer WarSouth Africa · 1899-1902“Do not let the goldfields blind you; this war also belongs to the people behind the wire.”Britain and the Boer republics fought over power in South Africa, with gold beneath the argument and supremacy above it. The Transvaal and the Orange Free State resisted British control, and in 1899 the war began.The lesson the elders kept: Memory can be unequal even among the dead. The Second Boer War teaches that remembrance must widen the circle, especially where history counted some lives poorly.