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African clergyman James Arthur Calata with Mrs E C Butler and Wayfarer officers

African clergyman James Arthur Calata with Mrs E C Butler and Wayfarer officers

An investigation into the circumstances relating to the cattle-killing delusion in Kaffraria, 1856-1857

  • Authors: Dowsley, Eileen D'Altera
  • Date: 1932
  • Subjects: Cattle Killing, 1856-1857 , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1853-1871 , Xhosa (African people) -- History , Grey, George, Sir, 1812-1898 , Nongqawuse, 1841-1898 , Mhlakaza -- Xhosa seer -- 1800?-1857 , Sarhili -- Xhosa paramount chief -- ca.1814-1892
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2538 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002390
  • Description: Introductory: If the relations existing between the Native chiefs and the Colony which Sir George Grey found on his arrival are to be fully understood, a brief consideration of Cathcart’s policy and Frontier settlement is necessary. When Cathcart came out as Governor in 1852, he found the rebel chief Sandile, with associate chieftans’ and large bands of followers, still occupying their locations in the Amatola ranges. From this haunt no force had as yet been able to drive them. During the series of skirmishes known as the Eighth Kaffir War, their first crop of Indian corn was destroyed so early in the season as to allow of a second crop springing up. This unusual phenomenon inspired prophet Umlangeni to claim that he had worked a miracle. Fortunately later reverses and the expulsion of Sanailli from his mountain fastness discredited this thoughtful opportunist. Sandilli, as paramount chief of the Gaikas, might have held and influential position in the councils of the Kaffrarian chiefs, that he did not hold such a position, was due, in Charles Brownlee’s opinion, to his timid and suspicious nature and to the fact that his mental capacity was ‘hardly above mediocrity’. He was unable to fight owing to lameness, and he lacked ‘sufficient’ resciution and strength of mind to resist the evil influence of the bad advisers, nevertheless he could be obstinate and he never, to the end of his life, gave up on the idea of getting back to this old locations in the Amatolas. Macomo with some three thousand followers had likewise evaded all attempts to turn him out of this haunts in the mountain range. He, together with his associate the Tambookie chief Quesha, and diverse rebel Hotttentots, indulged in the frequent marauding forays into the surrounding country. Macomo was the eldest of Gaika’s sons and was “allowed by all to be the greatest politician and best warrior in Kaffraria’. During the minority of Sandilli Macomo had acted as his regent and had attained great influence over the tribe; this he afterwards lost for he moved to the neighbourhood of Fort Beaufort, where in a state of intoxication most of this time was passed. He had in Brownlee’s opinion, done more mischief in the war than any other chief. Great jealously was felt between Macomo and Sandilli, especially on the part of the former; this was shown through the cattle killing period in his efforts to involve Sandilli, while attempting to keep on the right side of the Government himself. Further south, indeed within the Colony itself, such petty chiefs as Seyolo and Botman, lurking in the Fish River bush, and the Keiskamma kloofs, rendered the main road dangerous, and even succeeded, for a time, in completely cutting the ling of communication between Kingwilliamstown and Grahamstown.
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  • Date Issued: 1932

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East London: its foundation and early development as a port

  • Authors: Gordon, B C
  • Date: 1932
  • Subjects: Smith, Harry George Wakelyn, Sir, 1788-1860 D'Urban, Benjamin, Sir, 1777-1849 Harbors -- South Africa -- East London East London (South Africa) -- History -- 1836-1866
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2606 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012046
  • Description: The flourishing city of East London has received but scant attention from historians. Its importance has been overshadowed by that of Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth, each with a foundation bordering on the romantic. The introduction to this thesis indicates traces of the existence of primitive man in these parts. The historical survey will commence with notices taken of the region by nautical and land expeditions in search of either shipwrecked sailors, or news of native races. The first serious notice of East London taken by the white people came in the time of Sir Benjamin D'Urban who sought a seaport for his new province of Queen Adelaide. Our port was opened in 1836 under the appellation of Port Rex, but faded into temporary insignificance, almost oblivion, with the reversal of Sir. B. D'Urban's frontier policy by Lord Glenelg and the abandonment of the new province in 1837. It was not destined to remain forgotten, for Sir Harry Smith at the end of 1847, saw in the mouth of the Buffalo River the same possibilities as had struck the advisers of Sir B. D'Urban. To him it was the future London of the East, and the connecting link between British Kaffraria and the world outside. From that time East London has grown steadily, and of recent years very rapidly. It is not proposed to carry this survey much beyond 1866 in which year British Kaffraria was annexed to the Cape Colony.
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  • Date Issued: 1932

James Arthur Calata's daughter

Letters of Charles Butler, 1932

  • Date: 1932
  • Subjects: Butler, Charles, 1864-1949 -- Correspondence Butler, Marion Grace, 1899-1979 -- Correspondence
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/34811 , vital:24285 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , MS 20 064.1
  • Description: Charles Butler, 1864-1949, wrote letters to family members, mostly his children, between 1932 until his death in 1949. During these years travelling with his wife, visiting family members in Kroonstad, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Vryburg and also went on holiday trips. Their permanent address was 34 Dundas Street, Cradock, where they lived until the death of his wife, Mary Emma Butler, 1862-1947, who died in 1947. He then moved and stayed with his daughter Grace and her family in Kroonstad, 47 Reitz Street. During this time Charles and Grace visited relatives in Vryburg, Cape Province. Towards the end of 1948 when Charles's health deteriorated they stayed with family in Uitenhage to be close to the doctors and hospital. Charles Butler was buried in Cradock with his wife.
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  • Date Issued: 1932
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