 The national anthem of the Transvaal "Transvaal, Transvaal, My Country" was frequently played by Russian orchestras, numerous committees were founded to collect money for the Transvaal, and church services offered up prayers for a British defeat.In countless newspaper serials and novels, the men of the "kommandos" were portrayed as heroes battling the arrogant British.Such was the popular enthusiasm that inns, restaurants, and cafés were given Afrikaans names and redecorated in the "Boer style" to improve business.