Land, Chiefs, Mining

Оглавление

Andrew Manson. Land, Chiefs, Mining

Отрывок из книги

LAND CHIEFS MINING

SOUTH AFRICA’S NORTH WEST PROVINCE SINCE 1840

.....

1These events are recorded by H.L. Dugmore, ‘Land and the Struggle for Sekama: The Transformation of a Rural Community, the Bakubung of the Western Transvaal’, (B.A. Hons dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand), 1985, and in Dugmore, ‘The Rise to Power of the Mmonakgotla Family of the Bakubung,’ Africa Perspective, 1985, pp. 101–116. See also P-L. Breutz, Tribes of the Ventersdorp District, Government Ethnological Publications no. 5, (Pretoria, 1957).

The baKgatla ba Kgafela did not fare as well during these years. Pilane, the kgosi during the period of upheavals, fled north to the baLaka of kgosi Mapela in the country of the baPedi. He returned in 1837 after the amaNdebele had gone, but he appears to have made a serious enemy of them, and the amaNdebele allegedly raided him again from their new abode in Matebeleland as late as 1842,1 and according to baKgatla traditions some of his sons were taken captive. Pilane’s son Kgamanyane succeeded him in 1850 or 1851. By then the baKgatla resided as tenants at Moruleng (on the farm Saulspoort owned by Paul Kruger); in 1864, Henri Gonin, a Swiss national and member of the Buitelandse Sending (foreign mission) of the NG Kerk, was allowed by Kruger to work among them and through Gonin’s efforts the baKgatla purchased Saulspoort in 1898.2 It may have looked promising for Kgamanyane’s baKgatla, but the demand for forced labour on Boer farms in the Pilanesberg had become unbearable by 1865, and some baKgatla left the district altogether.

.....