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[one of the Kaffir Wars, also called Cape
Frontier Wars]
Cape Frontier Wars also called KAFFIR, OR
KAFIR, WARS (1779-1879), 100 years of intermittent warfare between the Cape colonists and the Xhosa agricultural and pastoral peoples of the Eastern Cape, in South Africa. One of the most prolonged struggles by African peoples against European intrusion, it ended in the annexation of Xhosa territories by the Cape Colony and the incorporation of its peoples...
In 1834-35 fighting erupted again, and for the first time the war was carried into the territory of the Gcaleka Xhosa, whose paramount chief,
Hintsa, was shot while in British custody.
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