The failed Jameson Raid paradoxically strengthened mining magnates’ bargaining position with the Boer state

Evidence

The Jameson Raid in 1895 was cooked up as a conspiracy between goldmine magnates and Cape Government elites under Governor Cecil Rhodes to wrest administrative control of the Transvaal from the boers under Kruger’s leadership. It failed hopelessly in its immediate goals. But in the short term it made the Kruger administration more amenable to gold industry demands. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1456

Categorization

• QUESTION: In what mechanism did a failed coup make the Boer administration more amenable to industry demands? The passage asserts the counterintuitive outcome without explaining the causal path — the direct quotations continue into the next paragraph though the excerpt cuts the bodies reference correctly.