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  The conflict between the Sothos and the Boers was primarily a matter of territorial dispute. The Sotho land system was very simple, requiring only permission from the head of state to settle in uninhabited areas, which made it easy for the Boers to take over Sotho land. The Boers kept selling or leasing the Sothos’ land, buying and selling farms as their own, harassing the Sothos and threatening war. This conflict intensified after the Treaty of Napier was signed between the Sothos and the British government. But the British position has changed. At first, as a mediator between the Sothos and the Boers, they supported the Sothos in defending their land, but later switched to supporting the Boers in encroachment on the Sothos’ land. Finally, after 1868, the British annexed Lesotho as a colony, nominally to “protect” the Sothos, but in reality it was a disguised kingdom to crush the Sothos. It was because the British wanted to make Lesotho their own territory that the British reduced the size of the kingdom and made it easy for them to rule and conquer. But the Sothos were not content to be the subjects of a colony, so they demanded democracy and self-restraint, and the retention of sovereign sovereignty and independence of the kingdom.

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