Kaffraria

Kaffraria was the descriptive name given to the southeast part of the Cape Province of South Africa. Kaffraria, i.e. the land of the Kaffirs, is no longer an official designation. It used to comprise the districts now known as King Williams Town and East London, which formed British Kaffraria, annexed to Cape Colony in 1865, and the territory beyond the Kei River south of the Drakensberg Mountains as far as the Natal frontier, known as Kaffraria proper.

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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 and Griqualand East, incorporated into Cape Colony at various periods between 1879 and 1894. They have a total area of 18,310 sq. m., 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.

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Cape Province: Under the Union of South Africa and after that under the Republic of South Africa, the old Cape Colony became the Cape of Good Hope Province (though it was commonly known as the Cape Province). Since 1994, it has been broken up into three smaller administrative units: the Western Cape, Eastern Cape ...

South Africa: :This article is about the country called South Africa. For the region, see southern Africa....

Kaffir: :See: kaphir for more information; kaffir lime for the condiment; kafir for the Muslim equivalent of "infidel"; kephir for the fermented drink....

Kaffraria related Images and Photos (experimental)

The Hog's Back or a Great Peak of the Amatola-British-Kaffraria