This treaty was signed at the home of George Hays while one force waited nearby at Parkzicht.  
This treaty was signed at the home of George Hays while one force waited nearby at Parkzicht.  In the discussion leading up to it, delegates expressed fear that a backlash over a recent skirmish at Holkrans would derail peace efforts, but realization that their situation had worsened since the failed Hatherley proposal led to the eventual rejection of the plan of Marthinus Steyn.  It was precipitated by an offer of mediation by Abraham Kuyper, which led to the Klerksdorp Conference and to the formal surrender at Melrose House.  Drawn up by James Hertzog and Jan Smuts, FTP, name this document that deferred voting rights for people of color, guaranteed right of return for Uitlanders and Dutch language schools in the Orange Free State and Transvaal, and ended the Boer War.
This treaty was signed at the home of George Hays while one force waited nearby at Parkzicht.  
Treaty of Vereeniging