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The mystery of Cape Town's disappearing gun - BBC Travel - 2 views

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Tshinakaho Magadani

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  • When the British military heard that Russia might send warships to South Africa, the British installed modern breech-loading cannons around the Cape, including three huge and mysterious ‘disappearing guns’
  • When the British military heard that Russia might send warships to South Africa, the British installed modern breech-loading cannons around the Cape, including three huge and mysterious ‘disappearing guns’
    • magadaniviva
      magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
       
      the British colonial rulers were afraid that the Russians may descend to South Africa and take their colony, so they designed guns that disappears and only them knew where they were located.
  • “What made disappearing guns unique was their ability to hide from enemy fire by lowering themselves into a gun pit,” Hart said. “These guns were fitted with hydraulic lifting mechanisms for the artillery crew to lift the barrel from its loading position under a protective shield into a firing position and rotate it towards the targe
    • magadaniviva
      magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
       
      they used these guns so that when the enemy approach South Africa they do not see the guns they will only see them when they are about to be attacked.
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    • magadaniviva
      magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
       
      these disappearing guns were imported from England by the British colony into South Africa.
  • Hart said the discovery of the disappearing gun isn’t just further evidence of Cape Town’s importance and strategic position throughout its tangled colonial history, but also a reminder of the little-known late 19th-Century power struggle between Russia and Britain
    • magadaniviva
      magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
       
      the discovery of the disappearing gun evoked the history of colonization and the war between the British and the Russians.
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January 19, 1876 - Document - Gale Primary Sources - 3 views

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Tshinakaho Magadani

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    the writer has written about how Zulus purchased guns for war and to protect their societies. He expands his conversation by talking about gun trade that happened in South Africa. Guns were purchased in numbers by different people from different societies.
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  • magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
     
    this gun is called a pounder gun and was used in militaries in the 19th centuries in South Africa.
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Tshinakaho Magadani

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  • Guns are both ubiquitous in colonial encounters and occupy an ambiguous place in
  • Guns are both ubiquitous in colonial encounters and occupy an ambiguous place in early imperial enterprise
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      magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
       
      Storey has written about the history of South African and introduction of guns during colonial era and how guns were many and they were stored in different places.
  • Guns
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  • . Guns also, of course, provided a means of self-protection against the carriers of the bad items of European civilisation, such as the slave-owning Boers.
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      magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
       
      Guns owners initially believed that they had to protect themselves from slave owning Boers.
  • He uses the question of who should have the right to own guns as another way of shedding light on the changing politics of race and ‘civilisation’ in South Africa in this period
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      magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
       
      this question raised by Storey it reveals that during colonia era not everyone was allowed to own a gun especially blacks or South Africans to be specific.
  • to own guns as another way of shedding light on the changing politics of race and
  • guns were integral to South African society
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      magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
       
      things could not go well in South Africa without guns as it was a frontier society.
  • But, as the experience of the many wars on the eastern Cape frontier demonstrated, the traditional assegai remained a fair match for the old flintlocks and other such guns in the conditions of bush warfare.
  • old flintlocks and other such guns in the conditions of bush warfare
    • magadaniviva
      magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
       
      many societies in South Africa were already exposed to the use of guns as they used them during their wars, and they knew how to operate them.
  • The creation of the diamond and then gold industries fostered a great expansion of the market for firearms, and their distribution reached deeper into African society than ever before. Large numbers of African men migrated to the mine fields where they usually picked up guns as items to carry back home.
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      magadaniviva on 25 Apr 23
       
      By the time of the invasion of gold and diamond the industries had many guns market and they were available in the mine fields. when it was time to go home many African many were in possession of guns
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Guns, Race, and Skill in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa.pdf - 4 views

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  • it seems. South Africa's "gun society" originated in the seventeenth century, when the Dutch East India Company encouraged the European settlers of the Cape of Good Hope to procure firearms and to serve in th
    • magadaniviva
      magadaniviva on 24 Apr 23
       
      William has written the history about how guns were introduced in South Africa by the Europeans.
  • itia. The European farmers (called Boers) who crossed the colonial boundaries into the African interior
    • magadaniviva
      magadaniviva on 24 Apr 23
       
      Africans where first given firearms by Europeans farmers.
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    • magadaniviva
      magadaniviva on 24 Apr 23
       
      a firearm is a weapon or a pistol that is used mostly in wars.
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  • cs. Settler perceptions of the threat posed by armed Africans persuaded British conservatives to portray Africans as skilled with firearms, even as they otherwise characterized Africans as racially infer
    • magadaniviva
      magadaniviva on 24 Apr 23
       
      they way Africans were using firearms made the British conservatives to realize that they were not less skilled but otherwise they knew a lot.
  • ad, by the end of the nineteenth century, become more myth than reali
    • magadaniviva
      magadaniviva on 24 Apr 23
       
      the Boers were the ones who were always said to be skilled but British did not believe that as they just witnessed the opposite as Africans were doing exceptionally well with guns.
  • ms. The contributors greatly advanced our knowledge of firearms in southern Africa, but they arrived at some unexamined and contradictory conclusions about skill. Relying on colonial descriptions of African peoples of the region, they characterized the Khoisan and Griqua as skilled with weapons, a facility that enabled them to resist colonialism for a w
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      magadaniviva on 24 Apr 23
       
      some Africans were hunters and they used bows and arrows when hunting and it was about aiming for the target, when they were introduced to the guns and they used the same skill they used with arrows.
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February 17, 1883 - Document - Nineteenth Century Collections Online - 16 views

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Sive Mhlobo 222057774

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  • TOWNS AND DEFENSIBLE POINTS healthy for Europeans. The temperature in November and Decem-. ber, March, April, and May, is about the same as in summer in Northern Europe. The hottest time is from the end of December till the end of February. The nights are always cool. It is free from mosquito and tsetse. The fort consists of a four-sided stone and clay wall, 10 ft. high and 1 ft. 6 in. thick. Within, at the SE. and NW. angles, are the officers houses, two-storied buildings. The ground floors form the stores for ammunition, «fee. The lower story is of. stone, but the upper story, owing to the liability to earthquakes, of timber work and plaster. Verandahs, 12 ft. wide, surround the building. At the SE. angle is a bastion commanding the adjoining valley. The fort has 2 guns. The ordinary garrison consists of 1 Company ot Protectorate troops. Just to the W. of the fort is a substantial two-storied building f° r the accommodation of the non-commissioned officers. The privat ев and their wives live in a street of huts outside the fort. New Moshi is about 6 miles SE. of Moshi, and is a station on the Tanga-Usambara railway. A modern hotel is nearing com¬ pletion. There are 20-30 Europeans, mostly employed on the rail¬ way
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