Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-240) and index.
Contents:
1. Bawana and Maphasa on the Tambookie frontier: colonial conquest and internal violence - 2. The Tambookie location and the destruction of chiefly authority - 3. Settler colonialism and the vendetta against Gungubele - 4. The politics of public office under apartheid and the rise of Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima - 5. Claiming identity, constructing ethnicity: the rise of the right-hand house of Tshatshu and the politics of bantustan independence - 6. Chiefly politics, restitution and new imaginings in the era of democracy - In conclusion: Imagining and re-imagining western Thembuland. Appendix 1. Extract from colonial treaty with Chief Maphasa - Appendix 2. Sir George Cathcart's Proclamation (1852) - Appendix 3. Report and Proceedings of the Tembuland Commission - Appendix 4. Trial of Gungubele, chief of the amaTshatshu - Appendix 5. Gwatyu Farm boundaries - Appendix 6. Genealogy of the House of Tshatshu - Appendix 7. Genealogy of the abaThembu.
Summary:
"In rural South Africa today, there are signs that chieftaincies are resurging after having been disbanded in colonial times. Among these is the amaTshatshu of the Eastern Cape, which was dis-established in 1852 by the British, and recognised once more under the democratic ANC dispensation, in 2003. Bawana, leader of the amaTshatshu, was the first Thembu chief to cross the Kei River, in the mid-1820s, to open up the northeastern frontier of the Cape Colony. His successors and followers fought the British in the frontier wars but were defeated. In tracing his history and that of his descendants this book explores the meaning of chieftainship in South Africa-- at the time of colonial conquest, under apartheid's Bantustans, and now, post-apartheid. It illustrates not only the story of a beleaguered and dispossessed people but also the ways in which power is constructed. In addition, it is about gender and land, and about belonging, identity and naming. The book unsettles accounts of chiefly authority, unpacks conflicts between royal families, municipalities and government departments, and explores the impasse created by these quarrels. It retrieves evidence that the colonial state sought to obliterate and draws the disempowered back into the process of making history."--Publisher's webpage (https://juta.co.za/print/catalog/Product/3447)
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