<P> In parts of Cape Colony, particularly the Cape Midlands district where Boers formed a majority of the white inhabitants, the British had always feared a general uprising against them . In fact, no such uprising took place, even in the early days of the war when Boer armies had advanced across the Orange . The cautious conduct of some of the elderly Orange Free State generals had been one factor that discouraged the Cape Boers from siding with the Boer republics . Nevertheless, there was widespread pro-Boer sympathy . Some of the Cape Dutch volunteered to help the British, but a much larger number volunteered to help the other side . The political factor was more important than the military: the Cape Dutch controlled the provincial legislature . Milner said 90 percent favoured the rebels . </P> <P> After he escaped across the Orange in March 1901, De Wet had left forces under Cape rebels Kritzinger and Scheepers to maintain a guerrilla campaign in the Cape Midlands . The campaign here was one of the least chivalrous of the war, with intimidation by both sides of each other's civilian sympathizers . In one of many skirmishes, Commandant Lotter's small commando was tracked down by a much - superior British column and wiped out at Groenkloof . Several captured rebels, including Lotter and Scheepers, who was captured when he fell ill with appendicitis, were executed by the British for treason or for capital crimes such as the murder of prisoners or of unarmed civilians . Some of the executions took place in public, to deter further disaffection . Since the Cape Colony was Imperial territory, its authorities forbade the British Army to burn farms or to force Boers into concentration camps . </P> <P> Fresh Boer forces under Jan Christiaan Smuts, joined by the surviving rebels under Kritzinger, made another attack on the Cape in September 1901 . They suffered severe hardships and were hard pressed by British columns, but eventually rescued themselves by routing some of their pursuers at the Battle of Elands River and capturing their equipment . From then until the end of the war, Smuts increased his forces from among Cape rebels until they numbered 3,000 . However, no general uprising took place, and the situation in the Cape remained stalemated . </P> <P> In January 1902, Boer leader Manie Maritz was implicated in the Leliefontein massacre in the far Northern Cape . </P>

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