Hidden Histories of Gordonia. Martin Legassick

Das SADOCC-Magazin für das Südliche Afrika, 58, 2008, pp. 20–3.

      Chapter 7 was first published as M. Legassick, ‘The battle of Naroegas: context, historiography, sources and significance’, Kronos, 21, 1994, pp. 32–60.

      Chapter 9 was first published as M. Legassick, ‘The racial division of Gordonia, 1921–1930’, Kronos, 25, 1998/99, pp.152–86.

       ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

ANB	African National Bond
ANC	African National Congress
APO	African People’s Organisation
ARM	assistant regional magistrate
BAAB	Bantu Affairs Administration Board
CA	Western Cape Archives and Records Service
CMP	Cape Mounted Police
CMR	Cape Mounted Rifles
CNC	Chief Native Commissioner
CPP	Cape Parliamentary Papers
CT	Cape Town
DRC	Dutch Reformed Church
GSWA	German South West Africa
HAD	House of Assembly Debates
KWT	Kingwilliamstown
LMS	London Missionary Society
MP	Member of parliament
NAC	Native Affairs Commission
NAD	Native Affairs Department
NGK	Nederduits Gereformeerde Sending Kerk Archive, Cape Town
NCO	Non-commissioned officer
OFS	Orange Free State
PA	State Archives, Pretoria
PAC	Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
PMO	Prime Minister’s Office
PPC	Paballelo Parents Committee
RM	Regional magistrate
SA	South Africa
SADF	South African Defence Force
SAP	South African Party
SARG	Sekretaris, Adviserende Raad vir Grondbesit
SB	Security Branch (of the South African Police)
SGK	Stadsgebied Komittee
SMI	Secretary for Mines and Industry
SNA	Secretary for Native Affairs
SPP	Surplus People Project
TC	Town clerk
UCT	University of Cape Town
UDF	United Democratic Front
ULG	Upington Letters to Government
Unisa	University of South Africa
UTCM	Upington Town Council Minutes
UWC	University of the Western Cape
VMB	Village Management Board

       ILUSTRATIONS

Title page	Map of Cape Colony, 1901. Compiled under the Superintendence of Captain P.M. Du P. Casgrain R.E. Housed at the University of Cape Town Libraries.
Frontispiece	New and revised map of South Africa, containing Cape Colony, Griqualand, Kaffraria, Basutoland, Zululand, Natal, Transvaal State, Orange Free State, Damara Land, Betshuana Land, and other territories 1882. Compiled by T.B. Johnston, F.R.G.S., F.R.S.E. &c., Geographer to the Queen. Housed at the University of Cape Town Libraries.
Figure 1.1	The Cape Colony with 1798, 1824 and 1848 boundaries. Redrawn from D. Findlay, ‘The San of the Cape Thirstland and L. Anthing’s “Special Mission”’, 1977.
Figure 1.2	Dirk Vilander. Painting by Cobus Bosch based on an illustration in G. Farini, Through the Kalahari Desert: a narrative of a journey with gun, camera and note-book to Lake N’Gami and back, [1886] 1973.
Figure 2.1	Land title issued by Committee of Management, 1886. Western Cape Archives and Records Service, CA SGBB31.
Figure 2.2	Land occupations in Gordonia in 1889, 1910 and 1920. Compiled and drawn by E.A. Mcpherson, Department of Geography, University of the Western Cape, 1996.
Figure 3.1	Abraham September’s furrow along the Orange River. Section of ‘A map of the surveyed portion of British Bechuanaland. Compiled in the Surveyor General’s Office, Vryburg, 1894’. Western Cape Archives and Records Service, CA M52 British Bechuanaland,