NEED REAL ANSWERS As a result of the Boer Wars with the Afrikaners, Great Britain:
A. gained control of South Africa, but agreed to deny the vote to black South Africans.
B. granted South Africa its independence.
C. gave control of South Africa to the Dutch,
D. extended suffrage to black South Africans,​

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