The East African army was divided into three routes heading south. Among them, Merk's 411th and 412th divisions advanced southward from Botswana along the Limpopo River, all the way to the Orange River line. This area was part of the former British Bechuanaland colony in a past life and is now "the Land of No Master."
Felix's 512th and 331st divisions pushed south along the eastern side of the Drakensberg Mountains, with the southern Swaziland kingdom as their endpoint.
The main attack force on the Transvaal Republic, led by Ernst and Sivert, consisted of the 111th, 123rd, 511th, 513th, and 514th divisions. They planned an attack on the Transvaal Republic from two directions: the western side of the Drakensberg Mountains and the western banks of the upper Limpopo River.
