The establishment of the protectorate (part 2) � The lost confederation

Monday, June 01, 2015

We left off last week with 1871 British annexation of the diamond fields around Kimberley as the “Crown Colony of Griqualand West.”

The new colonial state thereafter wasted little time in vesting itself with the full administrative authority over the allocation of land, an usurpation which resulted in the predominately Batlhaping indigenous population losing virtually all of their communal territory to the mining companies and white settlers who were then flocking into the region.

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