- Kaffraria
Kaffraria was the descriptive name given to the southeast part of what is today the
Eastern Cape ofSouth Africa . Kaffraria, i.e. the land of the Kaffirs, is no longer an official designation ("kaffir" is now a racial slur). It used to comprise the districts now known asKing Williams Town and East London, which formedBritish Kaffraria , annexed toCape Colony in1865 , and the territory beyond theKei River south of theDrakensberg Mountains as far as the Natal frontier, known as Kaffraria proper.As a geographical term it was later used to indicate the Transkeian territories of the Cape provinces comprising the four administrative divisions of
Transkei , Pondoland, Tembuland andGriqualand East , incorporated into Cape Colony at various periods between1879 and1894 . They had a total area of 18,310 m²., and a population (1904) of 834,644, of whom 16,777 were whites. Excluding Pondoland - not counted previously to 1904 - the population had increased from 487,364 in 1891 to 631,887 in 1904.Foot Note
There was a British cargo ship called
SS Kaffraria References
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