Whites Never Stole Land from Black South Africans
Whites never Stole Land from Black South Africans
June 5 2013 – Historic documents show that the Black Population in South Africa has thrived over the past 100 years. Its black population increased by an astonishing 920% since 1913, mainly thanks to the lavish food supplies produced by ‘white’ farmers and the socio-economic-medical benefits of Western infrastructure.
Meanwhile its white population remained stagnant: in 1913 there were 1,2million whites and 100 years later, there are an estimated 3,4million whites. At least 1million ‘whites’ have already fled since the start of black rule in 1994: an estimated 70,000 whites have already been killed by black-racist murder gangs, amongst them at least 4,000 white ( mostly Boer Afrikaans-speaking) farmers and family-members.
Above: Today, the handful of remaining white South African farmers (Boers, Afrikaners) who still produce excess food are under constant siege: this growing monument near Pietersburg represents the more than 4,000 white farmers and family members who have already been murdered, often cruelly tortured to death, under black rule since 1994. The ANC-regime’s constant propaganda stream blaming ‘whites’ for ‘landthefts’ contribute greatly to these hatecrimes, top genocide-experts believe. (http://www.genocidewatch.org/southafrica.html)
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The fact that the ANC’s propaganda-campaign is founded on gross historical inaccuracies was revealed this week in a research document from the oldest agricultural union in South Africa – which has documentation dating from 1897.
The Transvaal Agricultural Union report, titled “Whose Land is it Anyway,” was published to counter the growing hatespeech propaganda from the ruling African National Congress party of South Africa.
- There is a growing antigonistic wave of propaganda from the ruling party leading up to the centenary of the 1913 Land Act in South Africa – which however has nothing to do with ‘apartheid’ at all.
The Transvaal Agricultural Union report warns that black supremacists and their supporters quite falsely continue to claim however that this British 1913 Land Act was a “cornerstone of apartheid” and that it represented the “land theft” from the black-African people in South Africa.
- The TAU report warns that the ANC claims are inaccurate when they state that ” whites ‘stole’ land from ‘ indigenous blacks and that this ‘theft’was legally ratified by the 1913 and 1936 Land Acts which divided up the land and codified these divisions.”
Blacks didn’t have Land Tenure laws as Westerners understand them: TAU report:
In reality, “whites who came to South Africa in 1652 and thereafter, found a land devoid of basic development and infrastructure, sparsely populated by meandering tribes who had no written word and whose way of life was the absolute antithesis of Western mores.
“It is now acknowledged that the Khoi-San groups, and their sub-groups, are the indigenous peoples of South Africa.
“Whites and black African groups arrived in various parts of the country around the same time. They met at the Fish River in the Eastern Cape, and wars followed.”
The TAU also pointed out that prior to the arrival of the whites, blacks did not have any concept of land ownership or even writing. “Man in his primitive state did not know the concept of ‘land tenure,’” the report continued.
“When hunter/gatherer groups formed, the first land tenure (if it can be called that) was by nature communal. Before the arrival of the European in South Africa with his tradition of individual land ownership, communal tenure in Africa was the norm.
- “The territory inhabited and/or cultivated by a particular ethnic group was owned and/or utilized by the tribe in the name of their king or chief. Because there was no written word among these peoples, Christian missionaries took it upon themselves to learn and then write and codify the languages of the black people to whom they were ministering. They then taught these people to read and write their own language.”
A great migration of black people from Great Lakes region southwards…
“It is known that a great migration of black people took place from the Great Lakes region southwards, eventually reaching Southern Africa. Numerous reports exist as to which tribe went exactly where. But these reports are not the historical property of the black peoples.
- “Thus their claims to land in South Africa have no empirical foundation. They are based on oral history and folklore, and what was observed by early European travelers and missionaries, by the British colonial presence in the country, by Boer trekkers and administrators.
“If your history is written by others, with what can you contest this history? However, the early settled areas of the black people were later generally recognized as their core areas.”
“From the very beginning of settlement, black and white were segregated. South African history is replete with clashes over land ‘ownership’. There were no title deeds, no courts to decide who owned what. Proclamations and annexations were followed by wars, clashes, agreements and disagreements, theft of livestock, sloppy boundaries and arguments over the measurement and surveying of land; borders were drawn and re-drawn; people moved all over the place and a completely differing approach to farming by both groups existed.
- “In the black community, land was communal and the product of their agricultural activities was mainly for their own consumption. This was subsistence farming, and it persists in today’s South Africa.
“ Soon after the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 under British Colonial rule, it was deemed imperative to settle the land question once and for all. That government (ruled from London under the British Crown) believed that if land could not be partitioned and allocated within the ambit of a Western title deed system, the very future of South Africa would be put at risk.
“The most immediate problem was food production for a burgeoning population. (It was obvious to the British then that blacks could not produce food for surplus, and to this day this is still the case).
- “The core reason for the 1913 Land Act’s passing was the security of the whites, and particularly the farmers, to give them the necessary security of tenure on their farms to produce the food for what was still a country under the British flag, controlled essentially from London. Gold and diamonds had been discovered, and Britain was not going to give up this new jewel in the Crown.
“Antagonists of the 1913 Act and indeed the 1936 Act should look to Britain for redress. These pieces of legislation were not apartheid Acts—they were devised in South Africa under a government controlled by Britain.
In 1913, there were only 4million blacks in South Africa
“The current population of South Africa according to Stats SA is 52,98million. The 2012 yearbook of the SA Institute of Race Relations noted that in 1911, the SA population comprised of 4m blacks; 1,2m whites; 525,466 coloureds and 152,094 imported Indians.
- “The percentages were white: 21% and black: 67%. One hundred years later, the percentage population increase of blacks was 920%.
Land is a political tool in South Africa – it is not seen as a resource for excess food-production:
“But land in South Africa is a political tool. It is wielded without thought for the morrow. It is proffered within the context of a cultural more that has no place in today’s practical world.
- The issue of division of land under the 1913 Land Act is a blunt weapon used to garner votes by the present SA government to seduce naïve and mostly uneducated followers who cannot feed themselves but who are asked to look upon those who can feed them as ogres who stole their land.
”Recent statistics published by the SA Institute of Race Relations state there were 1, 337,400 ‘units’ of food production in South Africa.
- Of these land sites, 1,256,000 are( black) subsistence farmers; and 35,000 communal area farmers who have turnovers of less than R300,000 per year;
- 24,000 small commercial units have turnovers of less than R300,000 per year, and
- only 22,400 commercial units have turnovers of more than R300,000 per year.“
Only 6 percent of farmers in South Africa produce 95% of all the food for 53-million people…
This means that only 6 percent of farmers in South Africa produce 95 percent of the food for 53 million people.
The report points out that leftist “harping” on the “inequities of the 1913 Land Act are completely at variance with the facts as they existed in the first ten years of the twentieth century.
“Government (and many organizations with strange agendas) continues to harp on the perceived unfairness and injustice of the divisions of land set out in the 1913 Land Act without taking into account South Africa’s pre-1913 recorded history and, importantly, the population of the country at the time.”
http://newobserveronline.com/black-population-in-south-africa-has-increased-by-920-in-100-years/
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Your summary of the facts as recorded can’t be challenged in terms of the Western / Colonization of the land in Africa.
You admit that we all came as outsiders, both you whites, and us blacks. You came with your own western understanding of ownership, in particular land, versus our very informal migrant type of existence.
Soon, your English forefathers allocated us pieces of land, each tribe a native land, each chief, an area for his headmen, each headman, a portion of land that his immediate community could reside on.
My great-grandfather was allocated a small piece of land, today I know it as 35m x 35m, where he was registered, given an identity number, and a tax number, and he needed to live their a pay taxes. His cattle had already been removed, the land relied on meagre rain water, and within months, your forefathers recruited him to work for them on their land, in order to pay his taxes and feed the family.
My great-grandfather accepted that the Government had allocated a large piece of land to your forefather, and that he probable paid for that large piece of land, with abundant flowing water next to the Letaba River. What he did not realize, was that your forefathers defined his ownership of land to be one of a communal land, that our family still resides on today, and made no provision for him every to have title deeds, even though he was paying taxes.
The following the discovery of Gold, my great-grandfather moved to Johannesburg, to earn a living. This was interrupted by the war between the English and the Afrikaner, a war that shocked us, and in particular the way the English treated the Afrikaner, showing little respect for the Afrikaners land, crops and homes.
What happened there gave us the impression that the English considered the Afrikaner of no more value than us blacks.
The was hardly over in when Kliptown, Sophiatown and Alexandra mushroomed, giving us blacks the opportunity to invest in the ownership of land.
My Grand-father bought a piece of land and build a house in Kliptown. Kliptown was one of the early areas in Johannesburg but not under the control of the Council, and this Rural Council permitted the sale of land to black people.
Your article surprisingly supports the Union of South Africa in 1910, and even though it excluded black participation, and the Afrikaner suffered great losses, including Land, by being brought into the fold, allowed the Afrikaner to survive.
We do not object to the core reason of the 1913 Land Act to give the Afrikaner farmer secure land tenure to produce food, as food security is our greatest need today, our objection is that this act, not only removed all land tenure security from the blacks, resulting in many of our families being removed from property they owned, under the norms of your western culture title deed system, rather than giving us all access to property.
Accepting that the system had control of all land outside of our Native Territories, and in the early 1900’s, blacks were buying land, indicating that they had a desire to follow in the Western Title Deed land tenure program, and paid the market price, the restrictions placed on my forefathers, is tantamount to stealing more than just the land, but all the opportunities that accompany a community who can posses land.
Your article maintains the ‘political tool’ concept that is Land today, you could change this, if you thought about our country from my side.
Raymond.
This article does not ‘support the Union of South Africa in 1910.’ It merely stated as a fact that it happened. It was a fact of history. Why should one leave it out when it is so very relevant to the rest of South African history? What the article did leave out was that more than 120,000 Boers were chased from their land by the Colonial British in 1902 and became destitute paupers who were forced to move to cities where they were ‘aliens’ , treated like strangers in their own country, forced to work in the British gold mines and garment-factories, living in shacks in the backyards of ‘Britishers’ who despised them. That fact also is relevant because many Boer whites also lost their lives from the resulting famine following the Colonial ‘scorched earth’ campaign against the Boer farm families. The fact that there were so few ‘blacks’ around in South Africa in 1913 is very relevant to the story because they remained subsistence farmers to this day. One wonders why they didn’t learn modern agricultural methods and develop the vast land-holdings they were given during apartheid, when they had ‘their own homelands’. The vast tracks of former white-owned farms which were confiscated by the then-government from ‘white’ land owners and given to black land-owners now still are largely unfarmed and increasingly abandoned. The former homelands are wastelands yet before the land was confiscated they were fertile and producing many crops. Vast tracks of government-owned land, mainly former military bases, also are empty and fallow. Why doesn’t the ANC-regime redistribute those fallow lands if the the ‘land-theft’ issue is apparently so important to them that they have turned it into their main propaganda platform during this present presidential election campaign?
Are you suggesting that your article is free of emotions? You wrote it simpley for setting the record straight? So that SA can be a better place, filled with facts?
Please, you are clearly emotional about the plight of afrikaaners-farmers, as you rightly should be. Otherwise you wouldn’t have bothered with this article. And the same is applies to me about my history, not the propaganda you’re paddling.
My greatest issue/concern with your article is that ‘historians’ like coming out with historic papers (the TAU research document), and assume them to have some higher imperical factual ground. As if hand writen documents are somehow more authentic and or factual. If a human hand wrote it, you best be sure that emotions, motives and secrete agenda’s (sinister or otherwise) are always in play. Facts can’t exist outside of their context. And qouting them now to make your case is a case in point.
I believe that white’s have a place in this country, should they chose to stay. As for the ANC and it’s divisive politics, you can have them.
But blaming “black-racist murder gangs” isnt racist?… really now, only black people kill white people/farmers.
If you can show me that they (earlier settlers) were not racists, I will gladly swallow my words and apologise.
Well I think everyone is getting screwed or has been screwed at some point from my outside perspective, it looks like a giant mess with every side on the losing end. From my white (European-American) perspective, it’s really impossible for me to logically come to any conclusion that states whites have a stronger claim to lands in the black people’s continent. That would be like a bunch of black people moving into a German forest, then claiming they owned it because there was nobody there when they claimed it, the Germans would tell them to get lost.
All that being said, I live on lands that are traditionally not my peoples, I acknowledge that but if anyone ever had the thought of “reclaiming” the home or land my kids live on, they’ll be in for a fight. I can see how all of this will push buttons on every side, and I wish I had a viable solution to the hard parts of human nature but I don’t. All I can say, is that I hope things settle in for every one and SA starts to become happy and prosperous for everybody.
That you assume the history you’re quoting is 100% accurate shows your naivety, just like those leftist you keep talking about.
Who says early european settlers (clearly racists with a lot to lose if the truth ever saw light of day) would have bothered recording history accurately and honestly to begin with?
On the question of ‘whites farmers’ being the better farmer-community, why is it that a system of ‘kaffir-farming’ was adopted by earlier settlers, with so called supperior farming techniques? The only logical conclusion is that black-farming communities were already climatised to local farming techniques, which couldn’t have started when ‘we’ both arrived in SA.
Keep believing in your one-sided history note(s), and I will keep believing in my oral history. The truth will eventually see light of day (be it for or against black SAns).
It’s always handiest to shoot the messenger in an emotional reacton which kicks off with the word ‘racist’ — rather than examine the actual contents of the article. That’s truly sad. And of course playing the race card is the only way the ANC-regime and its cohorts apparently know how to respond to anything which does not fit into their propaganda-mind set. That’s the kind of hatespeech which leads to the murders of so many whites in South Africa right now – children, men and women, often tortured to death in the cruelest way imaginable. People are being murdered from this generation — who have nothing to do with the events initiated by their forefathers. And that’s downright racist.
Dear Thabo. I am a white Afrikaner South African. It is a known fact that my forefathers and the black Africans were not enemies. My Afrikaner forefathers tried for many years to teach the black Africans to farm on a large scale to feed the people so that they also can be prosperous on their own given land. After years of teaching they were still not able to produce or farm on that scale. They then employed them as labourers as that is what they were good at and agreed to. The Afrikaner “Boere” were the only people to help the African people when the British invaded. Credo Mutwa will confirm that. A coin always has two sides, but still remains on the same coin. I’m for any government that actually looks after their people. The ANC has not done that after 20 years and now Zuma blames Apartheid for it. This past 20 years of corruption while the elites get richer and the poor poorer, why is the ANC still in power? I will never vote for the DA or ANC. At this point Julius Malema is the only one who wants to keep the wealth of South Africa in South Africa. He is the only one who actually speaks out about what he believes, even if it’s sometime absurd, he is honest and straight forward. I have never voted as it has been obvious that the two main parties are different wings on the same bird. Malema wants to take back what the International corporations took from us, the same corporations that the ANC supports to fatten their own pockets. i.e. You can buy a gold bullion from a vending machine in Britain, the same gold mined here in South Africa, why can’t I buy that same gold here? You can only buy Kruger coins, at ridiculous prices. I’ve never voted before, but I strongly consider voting for Julius Malem’s EFF. Any opponent who the ANC government condemns must actually be doing something good. The time has been here for many years to stop looking at sides of colour and arguing about who’s right who’s not. It is time to stand together and make South Africa the awesome country it is meant to be. The truth of the past varies as factual stories contradict one another. The only truth left is the truth of how South Africa is being robbed and economically destroyed. There is no point in writing articles like the one above, but for every action there is always a reaction and this is only a reaction from what Zuma said. It is only propaganda when you use it to gain politically, if she said anything about it so that the DA can gain something from it, the yes, propaganda. Will I ever get justice for all the farm murders? Will you ever get justice for your reasons? Only when we start working together and make South Africa a better place, then we will make our ancestors proud. Viva ALL South Africans!
Ethnic Groups of South Africa
The Nguni
The Nguni group migrated along the eastern part of southern Africa in their southward move from central Africa. Some groups split off and settled along the way, while others kept going. Thus, the following settlement pattern formed: the Swazi in the north, the Zulu towards the east and the Xhosa in the south. Owing to the fact that these people had a common origin, their languages and cultures show marked similarities.
The Xhosa
The first Xhosa tribes arrived in the 14th century in the area known as the Transkei. At first, they settled in this area but, in time, moved further southwards until they met up with the white settlers at the Fish River, in 1788. At this point, the Xhosa had already been living in the area near the Fish River for more than a hundred years. In their move to the Fish River, clashes with the Khoikhoi (Hottentots) often occurred but they eventually defeated the Khoikhoi. Many of the Xhosa tribes chose to settle along the south-eastern coast of Africa. These were divided mainly into the Thembu section and the Mpondo section. Some other Xhosa tribes such as the Fingo, Bhaca, Nhlangwini and Xesibe chose to settle in the eastern part of the Transkei.
The Zulu
While the Xhosa tribes migrated to the Transkei and the Ciskei, other Nguni tribes such as the Zulu, chose to remain in Natal. In 1806, there were a large number of tribes in the area and there were four important and well-known ones. The Zulu tribe which, during the early nineteenth century, was only a small tribe, had settled between the Umhlatuse and the Umfolozi Rivers. The tribe’s first leader was Malandela and the tribe was named after his son Zulu. The Mtethwa tribe lived east of the Zulu and was a strong tribe under a strong leader called Dingiswayo. The Qwabe tribe lived south of the Mtethwa and its first leader was called Phakatwayo. The Ndandwe tribe was also powerful and its first leader was named Zwide. The Ndandwe lived north of the Mtethwa.
The Ndebele
Some Nguni groups migrated from Natal to Transvaal in the middle of the 17th century. The Ndebele constituted two important groups. The northern group settled in the area around the towns today known as Pietersburg and Potgietersrus. Intermingling between them and the North Sotho took place and this ultimately caused language changes. Important tribes constituting this section of the Ndebele are the Langa and the Moletlana.
The southern group of the Ndebele people migrated to the southern part of the Transvaal under the leadership of their chief Msi. After Msi died, his two sons, Manala and Ndzundza, founded two tribes and split up the southern section of the Ndebele people. They settled in the districts around the towns today known as Middelburg (Transvaal), Bronkhorstspruit, Bethal and Belfast. These tribes became known as the Manala and Ndzundza, after their founders.
The Swazi
During the 19th century, Swaziland was home not only to Nguni tribes but also to Sotho tribes. The Ngwane tribe under the leadership of paramount chief Sobhuza became very strong after 1820. Mswazi, who ruled from 1840 until 1875, succeeded him and incorporated the Sotho tribes into his tribe or drove them out of the area. These changes made the Swazi nation take shape and the new nation was called after its founder.
Small groups of Swazi people trekked across the border into the Transvaal. These groups constituted tribes such as the Nkosi, Shongwe and Khumalo who today live in the districts of Barberton and Nelspruit. The Hhlatyawako live in the districts of Paul Pietersburg and Piet Retief, together with some other Swazi tribes.
The Sotho
While the Nguni group, living in the eastern parts of the country, was moving southwards, the Sotho group, which was living at the edge of the Kalahari, was doing the same. This sporadic movement to the south took place before the year 1600. These people had originally also come from the area around the Great Lakes in central Africa. One of the most important tribes was the Kgalagadi who settled in Botswana.
Other Sotho groups migrated as far as the Orange River. During the Mfecane/Difaqane (displacement of black peoples due to intertribal warring and hunger) the Sotho suffered greatly under other tribes with leaders such as Mzilikazi and Mmantatise. The Sotho ethnic group is today divided into three main groups: the Western Sotho (Botswana), Southern Sotho (Basotho) and Northern Sotho (Bapedi).
The Western Sotho
The Kgalagadi, initially the main tribe, gave life to the Kwena, which divided into a large number of tribes. The Western Sotho live primarily in the area of Bophuthatswana. The most important tribes belonging to this group are the Tswana, Kwena, Kgatla, Tlhaping, Tlharo, Rolong and Ngwato.
The Southern Sotho
Prior to the Mfecane, many independent tribes lived in Lesotho and the eastern Free State. These people were related to the Batswana (Tswana people) and Sotho people who lived in Swaziland. They suffered greatly during the Mfecane and many of them were either driven away or killed. However, many of these fugitives found refuge with Moshweshwe’s tribe and in this manner, a strong nation was built. Today this group lives mainly in Lesotho and the eastern part of the Free State. Smaller groups are also found at Griqualand East, Thaba Nchu and Nqamakwe. The most significant tribes are the Kwena, Kgatla, Tlekoa, Taung, Tebele and Vundle.
The Northern Sotho (Bapedi)
Certain tribes that initially formed part of the Bakgatla are today part of the Northern Sotho. They can be found in the areas formerly known as Sekhukhuneland and the Pokwani district. These tribes defeated other tribes who used to live there and after that, a strong tribe was built up by Thulare and Malekuta. They are commonly known as the BaPedi. Mzilikazi often attacked the BaPedi during the Mfecane. The most important Northern Sotho tribes are the Pedi, Koni, Phalaborwa, Lobedu and Kutswe. They mainly live in areas of Northern Transvaal and North-Eastern Transvaal.
The Venda
During the 16th century, the Venda migrated from central Africa to the area between the Soutpansberg Mountains and the Limpopo River. Some of them initially lived south of the Soutpansberg, but today they live mainly to the north of the Soutpansberg mountains in the districts known as Louis Trichardt and Sibasa. This area is called Venda. The most important Venda section is the Mphephu. One of the smaller sections of the Venda is known as the Lemba
The Mashanganatsonga
During the Mfecane, Soshangane, together with a part of Zwide’s tribe, fled to Mozambique. He oppressed the Tsonga who were already living in the area, some of whom chose to flee across the Lebombo Mountains into the Northern Transvaal. Their descendants now live in the districts of Pilgrims Rest, Leydsdorp, Tzaneen, Duiwelskloof, Sibasa and Louis Trichardt. Some Tsonga tribes are the Nhlangu, Nkuna and Tembe. The most significant tribes belonging to the Shangaans are the Tulilamahashe, Shangana and Nkuna.
The Mfecane/Difaqane (Destroyed in total war)
One of the most significant historical occurrences in the early history of South Africa was the Mfecane. The term Mfecane (Nguni languages) means “destroyed in total war”. The Sotho speaking people on the highveld used the term Difaqane, which means “hammering” or “forced migration/removal”. This occurrence forever changed the settlement patterns and ethnic structure of the African population of the area. Whole communities of peoples were displaced in their flight from larger warring tribes. The winning tribes would often incorporate the losers into their tribes. Two key figures in this all-out battle for power among the African tribes in southern Africa were Dingiswayo (leader of the Mtethwa tribe) and Zwide (leader of the Ndandwe tribe).
Dingiswayo
When Dingiswayo became leader of the Mthethwa, his main concern was to improve the military system of his tribe. Young men of a similar age were divided into regiments. Each regiment had its own name, colour and weapons. The young men were even required to remain celibate until such a time when they had proven themselves worthy of the name “warrior”. Dingiswayo’s army soon went from strength to strength and was employed in an attempt to expand his territory. The army attacked smaller tribes which were allowed to continue their existence as tribes, but only if they agreed to recognise him as their paramount chief. Some of the tribes which were dominated in this way were the Thembu, Qwabe, Mshali Mngadi and the Zulu.
Shaka
The Zulu tribe was initially a small tribe which recognised Dingiswayo as its paramount chief. The tribe consisted of approximately 2 000 people and its tribal chief was Senzangakona. Shaka, his son, was born in around the year 1787. Shaka and his mother Nandi could not get along with some of the other members of the Zulu family and went to live with Nandi’s family, among the Lungeni people. When Shaka was 16, his mother took him to the Mthethwa and, at the age of 22, he became a soldier in one of Dingiswayo’s regiments.
He was brave and intelligent and soon became leader of one of the regiments. When Senzangakona died in 1816, Sigujane, a halfbrother of Shaka, became chief of the Zulu. Shaka, together with another half-brother Ngwadi, plotted against Sigujane, who was soon murdered. With a regiment borrowed from Dingiswayo, Shaka made himself chief of the Zulus.
Shaka was an exceptional military leader and organised the Zulu army with military precision. All the men younger than forty were divided into regiments, based on their age. Shaka built his capital at Bulawayo and, although he recognised Dingiswayo as paramount chief, started incorporating smaller tribes into the Zulu nation.
In 1819, when war broke out between the Ndwandwe and Mthethwa, Dingiswayo was killed by Zwide, after which the defeated Mthethwa tribe was incorporated into Shaka’s tribe. In time, Shaka destroyed the Ndwandwe tribe completely
He employed cunning military techniques such as the following: when Zwide sent the Ndwandwe to attack Shaka, the latter hid the food and led his people and cattle further and further away from the capital. Zwide’s army followed and Shaka’s soldiers waited until night fell to attack them, when they were exhausted and hungry. The Ndwandwe army turned back, after which Shaka attacked and destroyed them. A second attempt was made by Zwide later in 1819 to destroy Shaka, but once again the Ndwandwe had no luck. After this attempt, Shaka ordered the complete destruction of the Ndwandwe people. Shaka went on destroying several smaller tribes until Natal was practically depopulated.
The Zulu eventually grew into a mighty nation when Shaka succeeded in uniting all the people in his chiefdom under Zulu rule. In 1828, two of Shaka’s half-brothers, Dingane and Mahlangane, murdered him and Dingane took his place as leader of the Zulu nation.
Dingane
Dingane’s capital was built at Umgungundlovu. He was not as good a soldier as Shaka and this caused his defeat in many of his wars. In order to combat the decline of the Zulu kingdom, Dingane decided to kill a few important leaders. One of these leaders, Ngeto (of the Qwabe tribe), realised that his life was in danger and, after gathering his people and livestock, fled southwards and settled in the Mpondo district, from which he himself started to attack other tribes.
Dingane soon sent soldiers to fight the Mpondo people but he also launched attacks against Mzilikazi and the Voortrekkers.
On 3 February 1838, Dingane’s tribesmen killed Piet Retief, together with 67 of his followers, during an ambush. Retief had had an agreement with Dingane that if he succeeded in returning Dingane’s cattle that had been stolen by Sikonyela, the Voortrekkers would be allowed to buy land from the Zulu. When the Voortrekkers returned with the stolen cattle, they were killed.
The Voortrekkers swore vengeance and Dingane’s army was defeated at Blood River on 16 December 1838 by Andries Pretorius. Dingane’s death brought with it an end to the extermination wars waged by the Zulus. However, in other parts of the country, the Mfecane continued under leaders such as Msilikazi, Soshangane and Sikonyela.
Mzilikazi
Another small Nguni tribe that was forced to join Zwide’s Ndwandwe tribe was called the Khumalo. The Khumalo tribe was suspected of treachery during the war against Dingiswayo’s Mthethwa and its leader, Mashobane, was summoned to Zwide’s kraal and killed. Zwide appointed Mzilikazi as the new leader of the Khumalo. He was an intelligent leader who knew how to gain the trust of the tribes that had been incorporated into his own. Trouble started when Mzilikazi began to suspect that Zwide wanted to kill him. In preparation, Mzilikazi formed an alliance with Shaka, who allowed him to be the leader of one of his regiments.
In 1821, Mzilikazi felt strong enough to become independent. Shaka sent him to attack a small Sotho tribe northwest of Zululand and, as always, he brought back with him a number of cattle taken during the battle. However, this time he did not hand them over to Shaka as he had done before. When Shaka sent his messengers to collect the cattle, Mzilikazi refused to return them. After this, he was attacked by Shaka’s army and had no option but to flee with his people.
Mzilikazi trekked northwards with his people until he reached the Olifants (Elephants) River. He was now in the territory of powerful Sotho tribes, which he attacked, taking their women, children and livestock. He attacked tribes as far as Tswanaland and overpowered them by the military tactics perfected by the Zulu people. His tribe eventually became known as the Matabele.
Mzilikazi decided to trek to the central Transvaal and he eventually settled in the vicinity of what is today known as Pretoria. He moved because he needed to put even more distance between himself and Shaka and he was also in need of more grazing land. After this move, his tribe became even more bloodthirsty.
When the Voortrekkers came on the scene in 1836, Mzilikazi once again went on the attack. At Vegkop, the Voortrekkers succeeded in defeating the Matebele, but they lost all their cattle. In 1837, the Voortrekkers once again succeeded in defeating the Matebele at Mosega and the Voortrekkers, under the leadership of Potgieter, recovered some of their stolen cattle. The Matabele then moved away only to be defeated by the Zulu. In an attempt to get away from his enemies, Mzilikazi crossed the Soutpansberg Mountains and the Limpopo River into which is today known as Zimbabwe. He died in 1868.
Soshangane
After the tribes of Zwide, Soshangane, Zwangendaba and Nxaba,had been defeated by Shaka, they fled to Mozambique. There, they destroyed the Portuguese settlement at Delagoa Bay.
As the Mfecane continued, the land was devastated and tribes were attacked. Much damage was done. Soshangane’s capital was near the modern day Maputo and Shaka attacked him here in the campaign that cost Shaka’s life. Soshangane then moved on to Middle Sabie and settled near Zwangendaba and his people.
The tribes of Soshangane and Zwangendaba coexisted in harmony until 1831, when they went to war. Zwangendaba had to flee before Soshangane, after which Soshangane, went on to attack Nxaba, who responded by fleeing with his followers to the present-day Tanzania. With Soshangane’s biggest enemies out of the way, he began building his Gaza Kingdom. From his capital, Chaimite, soldiers were sent in all directions to attack other tribes. Even the Portuguese were forced to accept him as paramount chief. His kingdom stretched from the Zambezi to the Limpopo Rivers and his army resembled that of the Zulus in its military strategies. As Soshangane grew older, he began to believe that the Matshangano had bewitched him. In retaliation, he attacked them and many fled to the Transvaal where their descendants still live today. Soshangane died around the year 1826.
Mmantatise
During the early 19th century, two of the biggest Nguni tribes, the Hlubi and the Ngwane, lived near the present-day Wakkerstroom. The Hlubi was under the leadership of Mpangazita and Matiwane was the leader of the Ngwane. The Zulus had forced these two tribes across the Drakensberg Mountains into Sotho territory, which meant the start of the Mfecane for the Sotho tribes.
The first tribe to be attacked was the Batlokwa. The tribe’s chief had just died and his successor, Sikonyela, was still too young to rule. His mother, Mmantatise was a strong leader and ruled in his place. After the Hlubi tribe defeated the Batlokwa, they took to wandering around and attacking other tribes and tribes such as the Bafokeng were forced to flee. The Batlokwa eventually settled at Butha-Buthe, a mountain stronghold.
Sikonyela
Moshweshwe was living on the mountain with his small tribe and after repeatedly attacking Mmantatise, Moshweshwe’s tribe moved to Peka. There they continued the Mfecane and defeated the Hlubi. Sikonyela was by now old enough to lead the Batlokwa in battle and, in 1824, they made another attempt to reconquer Moshweshwe’s mountain stronghold at Butha-Buthe. The mountain was surrounded in order to stop the Sotho people from obtaining food. After two months, a Nguni tribe came to Moshweshwe’s rescue and the Batlokwa were forced to leave. The Batlokwa subsequently went to settle on two other mountains. In 1852, Moshweshwe finally drove the Batlokwa away.
Moshweshwe
Moshweshwe, the builder of the Sotho empire, was born in 1793. His mother belonged to the Bafokeng tribe and his father was chief of the Bakwena tribe. When the Mfecane began in 1816, Moshweshwe was 23 years old. During the early years of his chieftainship, leaders such as Shaka, Dingane and Mzilikazi were waging the destructive wars of the Mfecane. Many of the people who got caught up in these wars turned to Moshweshwe for refuge. He took them all in and his tribe grew bigger and stronger.
In 1823, Moshweshwe established Butha-Buthe as the capital of his chiefdom. A year later, he established a safer stronghold at Thaba Bosigo. This mountain stronghold was so secure that when Mzilikazi attacked it in 1831, he had to turn back without accomplishing anything. Moshweshwe was a diplomatic and powerful leader and was too clever to try to expand his territory northwards because he knew that this would incur the wrath of strong leaders such as Mzilikazi, Shaka and Dingane.
Consequences of the Mfecane/Difaqane
The Mfecane had a great influence on the history of South Africa. Large parts of the country in Natal, the Transvaal and Free State were largely depopulated because people fled in droves to safer areas such as the Transkei, the edge of the Kalahari, the Soutpansberg and the present-day Lesotho. In consequence, these areas could not cope with the sudden influx and became overpopulated.
After the Mfecane, the Black peoples were living in an area shaped like a horseshoe. The Tswana and Pedi lived in the west and the Venda, Shangaan, Tsonga and Swazi lived in the north. The Zulu lived in the eastern part of the country, as did the Sotho and the inhabitants of both Transkei and Ciskei.
The whites took advantage of this situation by moving into the empty areas and in this way the ethnic map of South Africa was changed completely.
Many people died during the Mfecane. Violence and starvation were rampant, because the livestock was stolen and people could not stay long enough in one place to cultivate crops. Although hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives, it also gave rise to the formation of big new nations such as the Sotho. The tribes of leaders such as Dingane, Shaka, Mzilikazi and Soshangane were significantly strengthened and changed.
I would like an Afircan/American or an African to give me an answer to these questions
If the white man never came to South Africa what would South Africa look like today (2013) ?
If the white man never came to South Africa where would you be today and what would you be doing ?
Thank you and I look forward to your reply,
Frank_2013
That’s a stupid question to ask. Another stupid question is what would America look like now in 2014 if whites never went to Africa and brought back slaves to America?
Negroes have never once in their entire history built or maintained a civilization. They have never even been competent enough to build a house that was anything other than stick and much hut, not even to this day in Africa, much less build a seaworthy boat or something like that.
The Negro was on a fast road to extinction before the Jew bought him from his fellow Negroes and brought him to America. The true history of South Africa reveals the same truth, that they were on a fast road to extinction in southern Africa before the white people stopped them from slaughtering one another, which they should not have done.
90% of the farms that they took from the Boers and gave to the black savages are failing, and now they are selling them back to the whites before they come and slaughter the rest of them. They should be giving them back to them for free. The idiot savages don’t even have enough sense to know that they are slaughtering the very people who feed them. The most worthless race on the planet…that is how you define the black race.
I like your thinking.
I see your KkK flavor of hatred has caused you to over look a few periods in history. Either that or you’re just spewing what your local grand wizard was preaching bout last week at the rally.
The Moors were a pretty successful bunch. Why, some say the even conquered europe for bout 700yrs or so. Even enslaved some of them dirty white europeans. As for not being competent enough to build a house, again I would have to say your stupidity proceeds you.
The moors were not black, they just included some blacks and the term describes north african muslims, which were and are mostly arabs (i.e. white).
To islandrevere….All moors were not muslim. There were moors of multiple faiths.. your information is incorrect. why did you post this as fact. Did you dig from multiple sources or go with the first two results. It’s ridiculous the topical 1 day research some dedicate to issues and assume they have the whole truth. ” History is told by the winners” and Africans haven’t been winners for a long time.
This is true. They never discovered and settled in Madagascar. In all those years.
http://wirenetology.blogspot.ca/2012/05/julie-mitchell-examiner-is-allisa.html
You speak of the Jews as if you aren’t one, Allisa Greenberg-Blumberg..
There is a savage here, but it isn’t the blacks you are referring to..
I suggest a good hard look in the mirror, before you say such ugly things about your own heritage..
Just sayin’..
i am none of the farmers or boers or afrikaners, but when i think that the all world wanted (inclued my country) the end of them, i am ashamed, because they have created such unfair rules between whites and blacks without knowing that there will be 108 laws to expel whites from every things thinking they were strating new rules both sides with equal rights
evrybody and especially the french tv medias jt outre mer before talking any non sens should read this summary of the facts
THIS IS THE PROBLEM /religion/2013/11/roman-catholic-paganism-vs-protestantism-a-picture-tells-a-thousand-words-2458558.html?currentSplittedPage=0
It seems to me that all ethnic groups have equal culpability in this, none treat the other as they desire themselves to be treated.
The perpetuity of the complaints and counter complaints shall remain so, unless a lesson is learned.
That lesson is thus: yesterday’s history, tomorrows a mystery, today’s a present: open it to see what’s inside !
Today is the day to set forth law that enables all and any man regardless of color to own outright, free from tax and interference from Government(s) the land by which by his sweat and work has enabled him to purchase with his own funds thusly earned. And that said property is his and his children’s forever, and shall not be seized by force nor fraud against him nor his children, children’s, children saving that once found in such condition the land be restored twice it’s original size at the expense of the men who by force or fraud did such seize. And if these men of force and fraud, be found bereft of land to forfeit, then their lives and the lives of all their children shall stand in stead.
Few indeed shall then be troubled over that which is there’s by ownership.
God bless
Stēkō Pharrēsia Iēsous
Have you not learned that arguing something you have created is completely futile?
Did you not teach the poor souls to read and write and proceed into a conversation? Did you not learn same, to stand for their rights?
Persuade in good deeds and get stabbed with an assegai. That is what we have now learned. It is clear that there is no room for civilization as over and over evidence and not some drunken person with a history book and pen have recorded and proven that this is a fact, that there where no attempt to develop, enhance or just simply develop logic skills. It will be simple, There would have been right now little huts scattered all over the land of South Africa, with singing clapping and stomping feet around fires and you will not have missed the little stick dresses blended with animal skin with hanging beads and possible stretched genitalia and ringed necks.
This is what will be here today. I would engage in the movement and final plan of action to remove all that was brought to all human disposal, if you pack your belongings in despair, make sure you take all that you have shared, demolish the buildings, take your technology, take your cars, factories, take the whole necropolis, and ensure the souls have left what they had, before they where introduced to all the new world has to offer. This would make now difference regardless, as this is what would have been here today. Absolutely Nothing. Matter of fact, if you do not do this yourself it is going there slowly but surely, it will not be defined on race, but truly based on basically what has happened to all lands and institutions in the lost souls command.
…..first off, whites continue to walk the earth and define things in a vacuum, as if no one else has the ability to define their surroundings… The African slave trade displaced many blacks out of South Africa; the white farmers was able to come and farm there due to the chaos caused by the slave trade and other things… Not to mention the Bantu migration routes that clearly go over South Africa. Furthermore; the fact that you in your comments distort the facts of history knowingly or unknowingly by saying blacks had no civilization is testament that the whites there have so got to die, or go back to Europe. The fact that you say nothing of the misplaced wealth from africans into the hands of whites is another reason why you should die or leave. The native Americans wouldn’t be found in certain parts of America until it was time to follow the herds of live stock the hunted for food, which is why whites first thought no one owned that land either, until the real keepers of the land showed up… Then the whites there attempted to say that land wasnt theirs either because they (the natives) wasnt there when they (whites) first showed up.
What do you think makes South Africa’s apartheid era different from segregation and racial hatred that have occurred in other countries; like The Natives Land Act, No 27 of 1913 and The Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923. The former made it illegal for blacks to purchase or lease land from whites except in reserves; this restricted black occupancy to less than eight per cent of South Africa’s land.