3-075-043 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches From Swaziland: Meeting of the British and Transvaal Commissioners with Swazi Chiefs, 1890. 'Dutch legal advisers, Sir F. de Winton; Mr. T. Shepstone; General Smit, Vice-President of the Transvaal Republic; Colonel Martin; Mr. Van Alphen; Captain R. S. Baden-Powell, Assistant Military Secretary at the Cape; General Joubert, the Commandant-General. When South African affairs were rearranged in 1884, the British and Transvaal Governments undertook to respect the independence of the Swazi nation. But since those days the white adventurer, and the capital which flows in along his track, have necessitated new arrangements...Sir Francis de Winton was entrusted with the task of conducting negotiations on behalf of the Imperial Government. [Dr. Krause was Legal Adviser]...The natives, with Mr. T. Shepstone, C.M.G., as their representative, declined to assent to any settlement which did not recognise their independence. The main practical results were the recognition of the present independence of the Swazi natives, and of the boy-King as successor to Umbandine, with the Queen-mother as Regent'. From sketches by Sir George Baden-Powell, K.C.M.G., M.P. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.