Titlebook: Chiefdom Politics and Alien Law; Basutoland under Cap Sandra Burman Book 1981 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limite

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The Cape Administration,e given Responsible Government. The arrangements for this constitutional change were completed in 1872, and for the first time the Cape undertook for itself responsibility for administering the affairs of the Africans living both within and beyond its borders. To do this a Department of Native Affai

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Winning over the People,d successfully, the danger of a revolt led by the chiefs continued to diminish. It was, however, a policy which required careful handling, for loyalty to one’s chief was a basic virtue in Sotho society, although counterbalanced by a man’s ultimate sanction of withdrawing his allegiance and joining a

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Changing the Law,hose aspects of the regulations most unpopular with either the chiefs or people. But sufficient records survive to show that this was not the case. As mentioned above,. chiefs were tried in court, and on the even more sensitive question of land allocation, Griffith acted firmly despite periodic prot

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Prophesies,one pound deposit required when lodging an appeal.. Yet despite such acquiescence, there were indications that not only the chiefs but the people were deeply disturbed by the changes introduced by the white man. They might swallow their grievances for the other advantages the new order gave them, bu

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Moorosi Rebels,ad been Moshoeshoe’s subject ever since his people had been conquered by Moshoeshoe’s brother in about 1825; but he had been left a great deal of independence after early efforts by Moshoeshoe to bring him under closer control had merely resulted in Moorosi migrating further south across the Orange

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The Collapse of Magisterial Rule, Affairs’ very similar to that of its predecessor: to undermine the power of the chiefs and replace African institutions with colonial ones. But the new ministry visualised so different a time scale for this process that it became in practice a totally different policy. Under Brownlee, the Molteno m

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Defeating Disarmament,e column of 212 Cape Mounted Riflemen being brought in to defend Mafeteng. They had been withdrawn from Griqualand East, which was left completely undefended as a result. This no doubt explains the timing, if not the cause of the revolt of the Sotho in the Matatiele District of Griqualand East, whic

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