Resistance in the Northern Cape in the nineteenth century
Subtitle: history and commemoration : proceedings of a mini-conference held at the McGregor Museum, Kimberley, 14-16 September 2011
By: edited by Sunet Swanepoel
Contributors: Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum
Publisher: McGregor Museum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Kimberley, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780620538336
Subjects: Chiefdoms; Congresses; Political activity; History; Resistance to Government; Tswana (African people); Nationalism; Memory; Memorials; Korana (African people); San (African people)
Description: "This publication forms part of a bigger research project on the history of the liberation struggle in the Northern Cape (NC). The purpose here is to explore the role of traditional leaders and their communities in the struggle against colonisation. ... A significant part of the resistance offered by traditional leaders was focused on countering the destabilisation and fragmentation of indigenous life that resulted from colonisation. Both the Dutch and subsequent British colonisation of the Cape resulted in the disintegration of the indigenous Khoesan societies living there...." -- Introduction.