Inboekselinge, Maqoma and Stockenström
Inboekselinge, Maqoma’s struggle for land, and Stockenström’s treaty system. Read one part at a time and tap “I know this”. Then test yourself in the quiz.
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Maqoma
Before the 1834–1836 war Maqoma traded and asked to return to his land. The war came from anger over lost land and colonial cattle raids. In the Amatola forests he made surprise attacks, then hid in the bush. He is remembered today as a hero of resistance to land loss.
Stockenström and sources
- Stockenström’s father was landdrost of Graaff-Reinet. In London (1835–1836) he said colonial raids helped cause the wars; many settlers felt he favoured the Xhosa and Khoikhoi. After he left, the treaties were dropped and war broke out again.
- He helped found the Kat River Settlement (1829) for Khoikhoi families, on the land Maqoma’s people were driven from.
- A settler newspaper calls Maqoma dangerous; a Xhosa praise poem calls him a brave defender: each side saw him differently. Registers and missionaries’ reports tell of the inboekselinge.
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- Inboekselinge were children “booked in” (registered with the landdrost) to work for a farmer until they were adults (in the Transvaal, until 25 for boys and 21 for girls), for food, clothes and shelter but no wages; many had been taken in raids. They looked after livestock, led ox wagons and worked on the farm and in the house.
- Historians call it a form of slavery: unpaid, and they could not leave; they lost family, language and culture.
- Maqoma (son of Ngqika, amaXhosa/Rharhabe) was driven from the Kat River valley in 1829; a clever military leader and speaker.
- Andries Stockenström (Lieutenant-Governor from 1836) used a treaty system to keep peace with Xhosa leaders.
- Most frontier conflict was about land, water and cattle.
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