<Li> Established uitlanders, including the mining magnates, wanted political, social, and economic control over their lives . These rights included a stable constitution, a fair franchise law, an independent judiciary and a better educational system . The Boers, for their part, recognised that the more concessions they made to the uitlanders the greater the likelihood--with approximately 30,000 white male Boer voters and potentially 60,000 white male uitlanders--that their independent control of the Transvaal would be lost and the territory absorbed into the British Empire . </Li> <Li> The uitlanders resented the taxes levied by the Transvaal government, particularly when this money was not spent on Johannesburg or uitlander interests, but diverted to projects elsewhere in the Transvaal . For example, as the gold - bearing ore sloped away from the outcrop underground to the south, more and more blasting was necessary for extraction, and mines consumed vast quantities of explosives . A box of dynamite costing five pounds included five shillings tax . Not only was this tax perceived as exorbitant, but British interests were offended when President Paul Kruger gave monopoly rights for the manufacture of the explosive to a non-British branch of the Nobel company, which infuriated Britain . The so - called "dynamite monopoly" became a casus belli . </Li> <Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="5"> Gold Production on the Witwatersrand 1898 to 1910 </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Year </Td> <Td> No. of Mines </Td> <Td> Gold output (fine ounces) </Td> <Td> Value (GB £) </Td> <Td> Relative 2010 value (GB £) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1898 </Td> <Td> 77 </Td> <Td> 4,295,608 </Td> <Td> £ 15,141,376 </Td> <Td> £ 6,910,000,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1899 (Jan--Oct) </Td> <Td> 85 </Td> <Td> 3,946,545 </Td> <Td> £ 14,046,686 </Td> <Td> £ 6,300,000,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1899 (Nov - 1901 Apr) </Td> <Td> 12 </Td> <Td> 574,043 </Td> <Td> £ 2,024,278 </Td> <Td> £ 908,000,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1901 (May--Dec) </Td> <Td> 12 </Td> <Td> 238,994 </Td> <Td> £ 1,014,687 </Td> <Td> £ 441,000,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1902 </Td> <Td> 45 </Td> <Td> 1,690,100 </Td> <Td> £ 7,179,074 </Td> <Td> £ 3,090,000,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1903 </Td> <Td> 56 </Td> <Td> 2,859,482 </Td> <Td> £ 12,146,307 </Td> <Td> £ 5,220,000,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1904 </Td> <Td> 62 </Td> <Td> 3,658,241 </Td> <Td> £ 15,539,219 </Td> <Td> £ 6,640,000,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1905 </Td> <Td> 68 </Td> <Td> 4,706,433 </Td> <Td> £ 19,991,658 </Td> <Td> £ 8,490,000,000 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="5"> </Th> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="5"> Gold Production on the Witwatersrand 1898 to 1910 </Th> </Tr>

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