These flags never enjoyed much popular support due to the animosities lingering after the Anglo-Boer War – the Afrikaner descendants of the Dutch settlers from the former Boer Republics saw it as a British flag, and the English-speakers saw it was not the Union Flag alone.
These flags never enjoyed much popular suppo?rt due to the animosities lingering after the Anglo-Boer War – the :Afrikaner descendants of the Dutch settl.ers from th.e former Boer Republics saw it as a British flag, and the English-speakers saw it was not the Union: Flag alone.