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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...
After the deposition of the Xhosa paramount,
Sandile, in 1851, this territory was reserved, apart from the British military outposts, for occupation by Africans. Resentments in British
Kaffraria, however, resulted in the eighth and most costly of the wars. Once again the Xhosa resistance was immensely strengthened by the participation of Khoisan tribesmen, who rebelled at their settlement of Kat River. By 1853 the Xhosa had been defeated, and the territory to the north of British Kaffraria was annexed to the Cape Colony and opened to white settlement.
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