Eastern Frontier, Cape of Good Hope, ca 1835Divisions of Kaffraria on a map of the Transkei Cape frontier 1875-1890Mission Premises, Wesleyville, Kaffraria (July 1852)[1]
Kaffraria, Kaffiria, or Kaffirland was the descriptive name given to the southeast part of what is today the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Kaffraria, i.e. the land of the Kaffirs, is no longer an official designation[2] (with the term kaffir now an offensive racial slur in South Africa).
The districts now known as King Williams Town and East London were annexed by the British early on, and were thus known as British Kaffraria (later annexed to Cape Colony in 1865).[2]
All of the remaining Xhosa territory beyond the Kei River, south of the Drakensberg Mountains and as far as the Natal frontier, remained independent for longer and was known as Kaffraria proper.[2]
As a geographical term, it was later used to indicate the Transkeian territories of the Cape provinces comprising the four administrative divisions of Transkei, Pondoland, Tembuland and Griqualand East, incorporated into Cape Colony at various periods between 1879 and 1894. They had a total area of 18,310 km2, and a population (1904) of 834,644, of whom 16,777 were designated white by the colonial government. Excluding Pondoland — not counted prior to 1904 — the population had increased from 487,364 in 1891 to 631,887 in 1904.[2]
^"Mission Premises, Wesleyville, Kaffraria" (PDF). The Wesleyan Juvenile Offering: A Miscellany of Missionary Information for Young Persons. IX. Wesleyan Missionary Society: 75. July 1852. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
^ abcdOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Kaffraria". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 629–630.
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