The Issue of Establishing Self-Government in the Cape Provinces in the 1860s-1870s

The article is devoted to the important and insufficiently investigated question of English Colonialism in South Africa. The period examined in the article was of primary importance in the development and realization of liberal imperial concepts as applied in settler colonies including the Cape Province which occupied significant place in the process of the expansion of the British Empire.

the Cape Province, the English Colonialism, the imperial concepts, the South African confederation, W. Gladstone