The truth is, and history will so record it, that England wanted
the control of this country because it is the richest in gold in
the world. England always puts in a claim where gold is found. New
York congressman, William Sulzer, 1900. A riveting story laced with
romance, humour, political r1 intrigue and violence against the
backdrop of the infamous Jameson Raid that triggered the Anglo-Boer
War. Caught up in the turbulence of the time is Brigid O'Meara, a
beautiful Irish musical hall performer who arrives in Pretoria in
1895 to have an illegal abortion only to find herself drawn into
the intrigues of a group of British Uitlander sympathisers, who are
planning the overthrow of Paul Kruger’s Boer Republic. She falls in
love with the charismatic leader of the group, a trader who is
smuggling weapons into the Transvaal and operating from a small,
unpretentious hotel right on the doorsteps of the Raadsaal. The
discovery of gold in the Transvaal was a double-edged sword
bringing wealth to the impoverished agrarian economy, but adding to
the simmering conflict between the Republic and Great Britain. When
a burgher announced joyfully to General Joubert that a new gold
reef had been discovered, he replied, `You would do better to weep;
for this gold will cause our country to be soaked in blood.’
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