Those Burghers who have stopped fighting form…

Those Burghers who have stopped fighting form peace committees to persuade those who are still fighting to desist.

In December 1900 Lord Kitchener gives permission that a central Burgher Peace Committee to be inaugurated in Pretoria.

By the end of 1900 some thirty envoys have been sent out to the various districts to form local peace committees to persuade burghers to give up the fight.

Previous leaders of the Boers, like Generals Piet de Wet and Andries Cronjé, are involved in the organization.

Meyer de Kock is the only emissary of a peace committee to be convicted of high treason and executed by firing squad.