Cape Colony: German Settlers in Kaffraria 50th Anniversary

Cape Colony: German Settlers in Kaffraria 50th Anniversary

Laidlaw # 0004 cataloguing at R1 250.00.

Laidlaw writes: - 

"Kaffraria was briefly, between the years 1860 and 1865, a British Crown Colony in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. As a consequence of Frontier Wars, which ended in1852, the British Government wanted to increase the white settler population in the region as a buffer to protect the Cape Colony. Mercenary soldiers of the German Crimean League were offered land, and 2,500 settled there in 1857. More German settlers, this time peasant farmers from Pomerania, arrived in 1858. A third group of Germans from Lower Saxony arrived in 1877".