Alfred Milner

Milner was appointed High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony. His aggressive policies toward the Boer republics, including demands for voting rights for British expatriates, escalated tensions leading to the Second Boer War.

Milner assembled a group of young British administrators, known as the 'Milner Kindergarten,' to reconstruct South Africa after the Boer War. They implemented policies promoting British immigration and economic development, influencing the Union of South Africa's formation.

Milner was a key British negotiator in the treaty that ended the Second Boer War. The treaty annexed the Boer republics into the British Empire but granted them self-government later, shaping South Africa's future union.