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The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo-Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship. First, Churchill experienced South Africa as a site of imperial conflict and personal adventure, which reinforced his romantic imperialism. Second, in the years after the war, he adopted a pragmatic stance, accepting reconciliation with the Afrikaners and supporting self-government as a necessary means of stabilizing the empire. Third, in the interwar period and beyond, South Africa became a more peripheral concern for Churchill, and he viewed it chiefly in strategic and imperial terms as part of wider Commonwealth and global defence calculations. Nevertheless, his close personal relationship with Jan Smuts was important to many issues, beyond South Africa itself.
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