Ironically, once incorporated into the Empire the Boers were superb soldiers on behalf of the Crown.
I remember reading a wartime account by an American armorer who was in both the European and Pacific theaters. During his time in North Africa he allowed a visiting South African Boer officer to try out an M1 Garand...apparently the Boers still retained a love of fine firearms, because he recalled that the officer fell so in love with the rifle that it practically had to be pried out of his hands!
For those wondering, Boer is the Dutch/Afrikaans word for “farmer”, rooted in the German word “bauer”. The Dutch settlers in southern Africa were originally called “trekboers”.