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"My little homestead in the city, which I recently insured for ￡2,000 would no doubt have shared the common fate, as the insurance companies will not make good that which is destroyed by the NAME_1's enemies. And although I have a farm of 50 acres close to the town, no doubt the crops and premises would have been destroyed. In fact, this has already partly been the case, and I am now suing the Government for damages done by a contingent of 1,500 natives that have recently encamped not many hundred yards from the place, who have done much damage all around."
Letter from a British citizen to his sister during the Anglo-Zulu War, South Africa, 1879
Which of the following was a direct effect of the expanding British presence in South Africa in the late nineteenth century?
A: South Africa became the most economically successful of all the British colonies.
B: Great Britain was penalized at the Berlin Conference with a loss of land.
C: The British engaged in a war with South African decedents of the Dutch.
D: British settlers created an independent nation.
Please eliminate two incorrect options first, then think it step by step and choose the most proper one option.