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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTranscripts of government records through 1884. Includes civil, historical, and native genealogical material for the areas of Transkei, Tembuland, Griqualand East, Mount Ayliff, Pondoland, and Port St. John's.
Author: Raymond Leslie Buell
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 1070
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jongikhaya Mvenene
Publisher: African Sun Media
Published: 2020-10-02
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1928480675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an account of the history of the abaThembu, from the reign of uKumkani Nxeko in c.1650 to the death of uKumkani Dalindyebo in 1920. The importance of this cut‑off date lies in the fact that uKumkani Dalindyebo’s reign was characterised by relative stability compared to those of his predecessors. His prestige, however, was demeaned by the Department of Native Affairs’ Secretary whose instruction was that uKumkani Dalindyebo should not be addressed as a ‘paramount chief’ as that title applied exclusively to the government, thereby strengthening the government’s position and elevating it to be above customary law. AbaThembuland was – and still is – central to the history of the former Transkei region and South Africa. Not only does it form part of the former Transkei region, but it also constitutes South Africa, and so divisions, conflicts, developments and/or underdevelopments in abaThembuland inevitably affected not only the former Transkei region but also the greater part of South Africa in no small measure. Thus, the history of abaThembuland and the divisions thereof overlap with the history of the former Transkei region and South Africa.
Author: Monica Wilson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-10-05
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 1000644286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1982 and based on the 1969 Oxford History of South Africa, this book discusses some of the trends in the historiography of South Africa before the beginning of large-scale mining operations in Kimberley in 1870. A deliberate attempt was made to look at the roots of South African society and to take due account of all its peoples. The book includes a survey of archaeological data, emphasizing the links between South Africa and the rest of the continent, and between the more remote and more recent past in South Africa. The lives of the hunting, herding and cultivating peoples who lived in South Africa before the advent of the Europeans. The foundation of a colonial society is described, and the expansion of that society until the 1770s. The final chapters review the relations between the peoples of the Cape Colony and the Nguni cultivators from their first meetings until about 1870 and the growth of the plural society in the Cape Colony until 1970.
Author: Lindsay F. Braun
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-10-16
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9004282297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913, Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objectivity and authority, even though the reality was far messier. Using a wide range of archival and printed materials from survey departments, repositories, and libraries, the author presents two distinct episodes of struggle over lands and livelihoods, one from the Eastern Cape and one from the former northern Transvaal. These cases expose the contingencies, contests, and negotiations that fundamentally shaped these changing South African landscapes.
Author: Timothy J. Stapleton
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0889205973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom roughly 1818 to 1867, Faku was ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom located in what is now the north-east section of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Because of Faku’s legacy, the Mpondo Kingdom became the last African state in Southern Africa to fall under colonial rule. When his father died, Faku inherited his power. In a period of intense raiding, migration and state formation, he transformed the Mpondo polity from a loosely organized constellation of tributary groups to a centralized and populous state with effective military capabilities and a prosperous agricultural foundation. In 1830, Faku allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a station within his kingdom and they became his main channel of communication with the Cape Colony, and later Natal. Ironically, he never showed any serious inclination to convert to Christianity. From the 1840s to early 1850s, this Mpondo king played a central, yet often understated, role in the British colonization of South Africa. While over the years his territory and power declined, Faku remained quite astute in diplomatic negotiations with colonial officials and used his missionary connections to optimum advantage. Timothy J. Stapleton’s narrative and use of oral history paint a clear and remarkable portrait of Faku and how he was able to manipulate missionaries, neighbours, colonists and circumstances to achieve his objectives. As a result, Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c.1780-1867) helps illuminate the history of the entire Cape region.
Author: Jeffrey Butler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1978-10-09
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780520037168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonograph examining the political development and economic development of the Black homelands regions of Bophuthatswana and Kwazulu. Covers legal aspects of apartheid, political and economic administration, sources of income and public finance, leadership development and homeland public administration, etc., and comments on relevant legislation and future development planning.
Author: Timothy J. Stapleton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-04-09
Total Pages: 349
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work offers the first one-volume comprehensive military history of modern South Africa. A Military History of South Africa: From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid represents the first comprehensive military history of South Africa from the beginning of European colonization in the Cape during the 1650s to the current postapartheid republic. With particular emphasis on the last 200 years, this balanced analysis stresses the historical importance of warfare and military structures in the shaping of modern South African society. Important themes include military adaptation during the process of colonial conquest and African resistance, the growth of South Africa as a regional military power from the early 20th century, and South African involvement in conflicts of the decolonization era. Organized chronologically, each chapter reviews the major conflicts, policies, and military issues of a specific period in South African history. Coverage includes the wars of colonial conquest (1830-69), the diamond wars (1869-81), the gold wars (1886-1910), World Wars I and II (1910-45), and the apartheid wars (1948-94).
Author: Walter Stanford
Publisher: Van Riebeeck Society, The
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: C. Youé
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-06-17
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0230288480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe coming of colonialism to Subsaharan Africa generated many forces that historians often describe in abstract terms: peasantization, leadership, nationalism and even colonialism. Such terms often hide or overwhelm the individual experiences of those who, in some way, contributed to the development and demise of colonial Africa. These 'agents' of empire - intellectuals and peasants, chiefs and ex-slaves, nationalists and colonial officials - symbolise the ambiguities of and limitations on colonial power. Agency and Action in Colonial Africa attempts to capture their role.
