Land Wars
Land Wars Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. Yet popular knowledge of the actual process by which Africans were deprived of their land is…
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Land Wars
Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. Yet popular knowledge of the actual process by which Africans were deprived of their land is remarkably sketchy. The central theme in this country's colonial history is the dispossession of indigenous African societies by white settlers, and current calls for land restitution are based on this loss.
In the process it describes the loss of This book recounts an important part of this history, describing how the Khoisan and Xhosa people were dispossessed and subjugated from the time that Europeans first arrived until the end of the Cape Frontier Wars (1779-1878).The Land Wars traces the unfolding hostilities involving Dutch and British colonial authorities, trekboers and settlers, and the San, Khoikhoin, Xhosa, Mfengu and Thembu people - as well as conflicts within these groups.