Who was Guilty of Starting the Boer War?
The article focuses on the origins of the second Boer War in an effort to know why it had been fought and who was guilty of starting it. The man most widely held responsible for the Boer War is Joseph Chamberlain, the ambitious, imperialist Colonial Secretary from 1895. There is no significant evidence of the mine-owning companies influencing the British government. Marxist and other anti-capitalist historians have alleged this, but there is little to show it.
