British Kaffraria
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British Kaffraria was a former colony / subordinate administrative entity in present-day South Africa, consisting of the districts now known as King Williams Town and East London.
The term Kaffraria, from the Arabic word qafir (adopted in Swahili) for infidel (so at first Non-Muslim; in Ottoman times specifically Christian; converted by British missionaries to Bantu heathen, i.e. non-Christian, later extended to all Black South Africans, under Apartheid with an insulting connotation) was once used for a wider region comprising British Kaffraria.
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[edit] History
The African natives were ruled by Chiefs from a Rarabe offshoot of the main Xhosa line:
- 1797 - 13 November 1829 Ngqika (Gaika)
- 13 November 1829 - 1 June 1878 Sandile
On 10 May 1835 the area was annexed to the British Cape Colony as Queen Adelaide Province, but on 5 December 1835 the annexation was already disallowed by Cape Colony; on 10 December 1835 it was renamed Queen Adelaide Land district. Grahamstown was its capital in 1835-1847
On 17 December 1847 it was again annexed to Cape Colony as British Kaffraria Colony; King William's Town became its capital.
On 7 March 1860 British Kaffraria became a a separate crown colony.
On 17 April 1866 it was finally incorporated into the Cape colony.
[edit] Administrative chiefs
The successive administrative chiefs, with repeatedly changed styles, were:
- Administrator 10 May 1835 - 5 December 1835 Harry Smith
- Lieutenant-governors:
- 10 December 1835 - 13 September 1836 Harry Smith (acting)
- 13 September 1836 - 9 August 1838 Sir Andries Stockenstroom
- 9 August 1838 - September 1846 John Hare (acting to 31 August 1839)
- (September 1846 - 9 April 1847 it was under direct rule from Cape Colony)
- 9 April 1847 - 4 November 1847 Sir Henry Young
- (4 November 1847 - 17 December 1847 direct rule from Cape Colony)
- Chief Commissioners:
- 23 December 1847 - October 1852 George Henry Mackinnon
- October 1852 - 7 March 1860 John Mclean
- Lieutenant-governor (again): 7 March 1860 - 24 December 1864 Jonn Mclean
- Governor's Deputy: 24 December 1864 - 17 April 1866 Robert Graham
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