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AmaTshatshu : Their Encounter With British Imperialism

Dr. Aubrey Somana

2021

Abstract

AmaTshatshu or the Tshatshu clan are a section of the Thembu tribe in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The Tshatshu met with British imperium from circa 1823 where, Bawana, the then chief, struck good relations with the British on the eastern frontier. However, his son, Mapasa, and grandson Gungubele bore the brunt of the criminality of British imperialism. In addition of being proclaimed as non-existent by the gubernatorial government of the Cape of Good Hope, the Tshatshu, not only lost their land and possesions but their very being.

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