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Kaffraria

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Kaffraria [kæˈfrɛərɪə]
n
(Placename) a former region of S central South Africa: inhabited chiefly by 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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