Talk:History of Cape Colony

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Need an article on General Sir James Craig, currently the name links to James Craig which is a disambig page for several different James Craigs - but the General is not one of them! --Stormie 04:52, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)

Forget I spoke, it seems that James Henry Craig, governor of Canada, is indeed the same person as General Sir James Craig of Cape Colony. --Stormie 05:09, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Cape Colony

We have 3 or 4 pages of History. THe root page is thin, the history pages are fat. Put them all on first page ? Wizzy 21:15, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Add a 4-paragraph summary to Cape Colony, leave the history articles as-is - they are quite interesting as an in-depth view of the period (southern Africa being the troublesome Middle East of the 1911EB's era) and thus worth keeping, but too detailed for the average reader. Stan 22:06, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Kaffir?

In translating this for the Afrikaans wikipedia, I came across the almost casual references to kaffir and kaffirtribes. In order to avoid upsetting things, would it be factually correct to rather refer to Zulutribes, etc? (Dewet 11:22, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC))

Around the Fish River, these would probably be Xhosa, not Zulu. Some neutral term would be better...black, perhaps, Bantu perhaps. Halfsnail 12:53, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Slaves

The Boers never owned slaves!!! The Cape-Malays were payed personnel. Also the Kaffir were payed. In this history are several "informations", which are nothing but open rassism - anti-Germanism! All four chapters here are full of british lies, arguments of an ideological battle which takes place since 100 years without any brain. - Dr. Groeger 11.07.2006