Kaffraria

This article covers the historical area. See also: Kaffraria (ship, 1864) and Kaffrarian Museum .

Kaffraria was an area belonging to the British Cape Colony between British Kaffraria , the districts of Queenstown and Wodehouse, Basutoland , the colony of Natal and the Indian Ocean .

Kaffraria included the districts of Transkei , Tembuland , Griqualand East and the Pondoland . The area covered 18,310 square miles (47,422 km²) with (1904) 834,644 inhabitants, of which 16,777 were white. The country is bounded in the northwest by the Storm and Drakensberg Mountains , from which several rivers ( Great Kei River , Umtata (now Mthatha), St. Johns River (now Mzimvubu), Bashee ) flow into the sea.

Kaffraria was administered by British commissioners even before it was incorporated into the Cape Colony (1875-1894). The Church of England was serving missionaries in the area at the time, along with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG).

literature

• Alan George Sumner Gibson: Eight Years in Kaffraria, 1882–1890 . Wells Gardner, Darton & Co 1891.
  • Reprint 1969: Negro Universities Press, New York City 1969, ISBN 0-8371-1573-6 .
• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 9th volume, 5th edition. Leipzig, Vienna 1896. (Entry Kaffern)
• Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon. 10th volume, Leipzig 1908. (Entry Kaffern)