THE KAFFIR WARS of the 19th CENTURY

[jainso31]

These "Frontier"Wars were fought throughout the 19th Century and ended with the "defeated" Xhosa nation being Colonised.The link indicates the details the ultimate demise of these indigenous Africans.:(

jainso31


http://www.glydestudy.com/view_contents-54

[Brett Hendey]

jainso31

You have chosen what must surely be a unique account of the "Kaffir Wars". I suspect that it must have been a student essay written by someone with access to only limited library facilities and, perhaps, not even a South African.

I don't know how to respond to it.

The Xhosas of the Eastern Cape were indeed given a hard time by BRITISH settlers after 1820. Those Frontier Wars started in the early 1830's and were concluded in the 1870's.

The Xhosas did, however, have the last laugh, when in 1994 one of their number, Nelson Mandela, became the first President of the 'new' South Africa.

Regards
Brett

[jainso31]

Sorry about that Brett-I "thought" it gave Q and A; but obviosly not .
I liked the "last laugh" though.Not much more that I can say is there??:o

jainso31

[Brett Hendey]

I know that not everyone has a high regard for articles in Wikipedia, but there are some authoritative ones under "Xhosa wars" and 'Cape Frontier wars", which would be prerable to the one you cited.

The history of South Africa is now being rewritten from the perspective of the new rulers of the country. The results are likely to be frightening to someone like me, but I hope that at least the author of the "Kaffir Wars" article is excluded from the list of experts taking decisions about what did, or did not happen. Since their early historians had no written language, there is need to accept oral traditions as a reliable alternative. I was told that already Shaka has been converted into a ***** cat and that the stories about his brutality and military conquests are a fabrication by European colonists.

Regards
Brett

[Brett Hendey]

I see that my previous post has been censored. I wish to assure everyone who reads it that I did not use a bad word.

This is the second time in my life that I have been censored. The first time was in the 1970's when I wrote the text for a small book on human evolution, which was intended as easy reading for young people. It got off to a bad start when it was banned from the libraries of schools controlled by the Cape Education Department.

Ironically, in view of other negative developments, human evolution is now required to be taught in South African schools. The reason for this is simple and it has nothing to do with either science or religion. Much of early human evolution took place on the African continent and early human species migrated into Eurasia more than once. Africa would like its inhabitants and the rest of the world to remember this important export.

Regards
Brett

[jainso31]

I am sorry to hear that you have been censored-I confess I tried a number of five letter words, but nothing sounded right.
Shaka was a blood thirsty despot who, when his mother died, nigh on killed everybody, who either did not wail or wail loud enough-- by impalement!
Why anyone would want him to be known as someone he wasn't -baffles me.:confused:

jainso31

http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/frontier-or-xhosa-wars-1779-1879#