From Refuge to resistance: Botsabelo, Mafolofolo and Johannes Dinkwanyane: Missionaries and converts under the authority of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, 1860-1876
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1981-02-23
Authors
Delius, P.
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Abstract
In the 1870s the Transvaal witnessed an intensification
of struggles over land and labour. This development was
particularly marked in its eastern districts and was partly
stimulated by the impact on the local and regional political
economy of the discovery and exploitation of diamonds and
gold. Also important was the changing nature of Z.A.R.
control over, and intervention in, the countryside and the
growing power of the Pedi polity. The latter had by the
1870s emerged as an alternative focus of power and authority
to both the Z.A.R. and the Swazi kingdom. These factors
shaped the disputes which culminated in the war between the
Pedi and the Z.A.R. in 1876. This conflict in turn
provided one of the pretexts for the British annexation of
the Transvaal in early 1877.
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African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 23 February, 1981