A history of the Xhosa of the northern Cape 1795-1879

In: Communications (Cape Town), Nr. 12/1987

Abstract

This study is an attempt to discover who the northern Xhosa were, where they had come from and why they had moved so far from their original homes, to settle along the northern frontier of the colony. It also sets out to recount and critically assess the processes whereby most of these independent stockfarmers and traders were dispossessed and reduced to labourers by 1879