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Kaffraria

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Kaffraria (kəfrăr`ēə), former name for a region in the Transkei Transkei , former black "homeland" and nominal republic, E South Africa. Transkei was bounded by the Great Kei River on the south, by the Indian Ocean on the east, by Natal on the north, and by Lesotho on the northwest. The capital and main city was Umtata.
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, E South Africa. Founded in 1848 as the dependency of British Kaffraria, it was added to Cape Colony in 1865.
Kaffraria
a former region of S central South Africa: inhabited chiefly by people then known as the Kaffirs; British Kaffraria was a crown colony established in 1853 in the southwest of the region and annexed to Cape Colony in 1865


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For instance, letters on land issues, written between 1860 and 1882 in English, by Emma Sandile, the daughter of a senior Xhosa chief in British Kaffraria, to senior colonial officials, foregrounds the already established effects of missionary education and colonisation in that region (p.
7) It is unlikely that settlers in the Eastern Cape, or what was then British Kaffraria, used lungsickness as a conscious pathogen against indigenous cattle as their cattle would have been similarly affected.
 
 
 
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