Reactions to rinderpest in Southern Africa 1896-97

The Journal of African History

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1972, Pages 473-488

  Onselen, C Van ^a  

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EID: 84974132736     PISSN: 00218537     EISSN: 14695138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021853700011762     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. As defined by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, Cape of Good Hope, Special Report on Rinderpest in South Africa March 1896-February 1897 (hereafter Special Report), 32.
2. See J. Middleton, ‘Colonial Rule Among the Lugbara’, in V. W. Turner (ed.), Colonialism in Africa 1870-1960, vol. hi (Cambridge, 1971), 13. 3 Special Report, 5.
3. Special Report, 7. 6 Eastern Province Herald, 12 Nov. 1897.
4. See M. Wilson and L. Thompson (eds.), The Oxford History of South Africa, vol. 11 (Oxford, 1971), 116.
5. The failure to agree to the payment of costs involved, so the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon felt, seriously jeopardized the success of the campaign against rinderpest, see Special Report, 11-12.
6. See, for example, E. A. Walker, A History of Southern Africa (London, 1965), 459
7. And T. O. Ranger, Revolt in Southern Rhodesia 1896-7 (London, 1967), 113.
8. H. Saker and J. Aldridge, ‘The Origins of the Langeberg Rebellion’, J. Afr. Hist. XII, 2 (1971), 299-317.
9. Colonial Report No. 224, 6.
10. See G. Y. Lagden, The Basutos, vol. n (London, 1909), 590-1.
11. Colonial Report No. 224, 5.
12. See J. Leeuvvenburg, ‘The Griqua Reformation Movement in the 20th Century’, unpublished paper presented to the seminar on ‘The Societies of Southern Africa ‘at the University of London, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, May 1971, 2.
13. Eastern Province Herald, 29 Jan. 1897. 33 Blue Book 1898, 119.
14. Blue Book 1898, 119-20. 35 Blue Book 1898, 120.
15. Blue Book 1892, 120. From late 1896 there seem to be widespread fears of a ‘native uprising’. Bulawayo Sketch, 19 Dec. 1896. See also Departmental Records Colony of Natal 1897, B. 66.
16. Vryburg Conference, 16.
17. See, for example, Report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, 42, and Special Report, 30 and 40.
18. In the Cape authorized by Government Proclamation No. 409 of 1896. This also created a good market for ‘authorized' disinfectants see, Eastern Province Herald, 11 Dec. 1896.
19. Vryburg Conference, 17.
20. Special Report, 43.
21. H. Bley, South-West Africa under German Rule (London, 1971), 123.
22. In the Uitenhage district one village lost 132 of its 776 inhabitants to the Enon Mission Station. Cape of Good Hope, Blue Book on Native Affairs, 1899 (hereafter Blue Book 1899), 49.
23. Blue Book 1897, 79.
24. Reported in the Eastern Province Herald, 29 Sept. 1897.
25. Special Report, 27.
26. Report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, 27.
27. Special Report, 39. Farmers attitudes are perhaps best expressed in a letter to the Eastern Province Herald, 11 Dec. 1896.
28. See, for example, the ‘unfailing preventative' suggested by ‘Matabele’ Thompson, Eastern Province Herald, 24 Nov. 1897. 56 Special Report, 23-4.
29. Blue Book 1898, 109.
30. Eastern Province Herald, 7 Aug. 1896. See also Report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, 138, and S. Marks, Reluctant Rebellion, 129.
31. Colonial Report No. 226, 5.
32. See Departmental Records Colony of Natal 1897, B.22 and F.46; also Blue Book 1898, 122, 127.
33. National Rinderpest Commission disbanded 1 Oct. 1896, Report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, 23. 66 Report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, 40-1.
34. Eastern Province Herald, 12 July 1897. See also, Fort Beaufort Rinderpest Enquiry, Nov. 1898, and S. Marks, Reluctant Rebellion, 139.
35. Eastern Province Herald, 26 July 1897.
36. Ibid. 30 July 1897.
37. Ibid. 24 Nov. 1897.
38. Blue Book 1899, 27.
39. See, for example, the diversification of Riddel and Goosen, auctioneers, into a transport forwarding agency. Bulawayo Sketch, 19 Sept. 1896.
40. Reported in the Eastern Province Herald, 24 Nov. 1897.
41. Eastern Province Herald, 8 Sept. 1897.
42. Colonial Report No. 226, 5.
43. Eastern Province Herald, 1 Sept. 1897.
44. H. Bley, South West Africa, 125.
45. Blue Book 1899, 11.
46. See especially reports from the magisterial districts of Bizana and King William's Town, Blue Book i8gg. Rinderpest contributed to what was already an inadequate diet, see C. W. De Kiewiet, A History of South Africa (Oxford, 1957), 81.
47. Blue Book 1899, 19-20.
48. Ibid. 73.
49. Ibid. 63, 65, 72, 73 and 108.
50. Blue Book 1899, 63.
51. A. J. Wills, An Introduction to the History of Central Africa, 159.
52. Blue Book 1899, 71, 77.
53. Blue Book 1899, 51-2.
54. Ibid. 65.
55. Ibid. 31, S3.
56. Colonial Report No. 226, 13.
57. C. W. De Kiewiet, A History of South Africa, 95.
58. W. C. Scully, Further Reminiscences, 317.
59. S. Marks, Reluctant Rebellion, 130.
60. Blue Book 1899, 81. See also ibid. 82.