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policy of the Dutch East India Com
pany incurred by misrule, great care
was exercised TO give the people a
fair and just government-to this end
two very high minded and enlightened
men, Janssens and De Mist were ap-
pointed which did much to efface from
the memory of the settlers the pc
every form of oppression for which
the Dutch East India Company had
become infamous, so when the En-
glish again In 1905 assumed the ad-
ministration of the Cape they met
much more stubborn opposition than
at first and even after the cession
of the Colony to England b. Holland
In 1871 there still remained q deep
undercurrent of opposition and UNI
rest which broke out at times in
violence: When Cape Colony passed
definitely into British hands it had
an area of $4,000 square miles. which.
has since grown to embrace all British
South Africa UP TO the Congo boundary
aggregating by 1912 an area of L.
i52.ll6 square miles. The population
six thousand of whom resided in Cape
Town; $4,000 Malay and Negro slaves,
about $4,000 Hottentots and half
breeds, a like number of Kafirs and
smaller number of Bushmen. We
have noted that the Dutch chaffed
under British rule, the native tribes
had never become agreeable to the
presence of the white man among
them, and had no more love for the
English than they had for the Dutch
chief among these was the Kafir.
The Dutch had lived constantly in
dread of their invasions which they
frequently had to Withstand. 1t seems
now Ii was the presence of the British
that prevented the Kafirs from reach
ing the extreme end of the continent
fntu rd n xKyla oh txrao oh
jective beyond question. This people
belong TO the Bantu stock and is O
race of fighters-it was due to Hot
tentot resistance finally, that Kafir
invasion was checked. The Bushmen
tribe whose hab1tation was just bare
ly across the Orange river was also
continual menace to British rule,
while latest of all they had to COM
bat the Eaflr-Zula combination which
was bent on entering Cape Colony
Ocean. The first decisive British Kafir
war occurred in l311-12, resulting in
driving the Kafirs beyond the Sunday
river and brought about their expul-
sion from the territory known by the
modern name of Albany. Governor
section in 1917 to make detailed
study and investigation of the re-
gions and reached the conclusion that
the only way to prevent these re-
peated Kaflr raids. was to settle the
district with a vigorous colony of
European emigrants who in few
years would be able to stem the Kafir
tide. De at once obtained grant
from the home Government of five
thousand pounds to promote q scheme
of emigration and in 1920 five thous-
and British settlers arrived at the
Cape. four thousand of whom were
settled in Albany. These persons
were poorly equipped for the task
that awaited them--they knew little
or nothing of agriculture which was
their chief Of dependance-they had
no experience in life in a semi-trop
ical climate. their grants of land were
entirely too smal and the new colony
was for a time q failure. Then aside
from the natural difficulties that were
to be expected. the elements seemed
to take the part OF the natives as
against the oolonist--for three years
they had drouth resulting in famine
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