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guns in colonial south africa - Google Search - 1 views

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  • tendaim on 26 Apr 23
     
    I found this image interesting as it depicts the defeat of the white settlers who tried to remove The Zulu people from their land, despite having access to weapons such as guns and cannons they were defeated by an army who only had shields and spears, I think its a powerful image.
  • tendaim on 26 Apr 23
     
    this image in the correct one, my first attached picture link seems to be broken,
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Further Correspondance Relating to the Despatch of Colonial Military Contingents to Sou... - 1 views

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    this document shows the request for more military's forces into South Africa, not only did they ask for more men and horses but multiple times do they make a request for more guns to supply their forces (pages 5, 7, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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SA: Thousands re-enact historic Zulu victory at Isandlwana | Africanews - 1 views

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  • one of the greatest triumphs in Zulu history and the only battle in which spears and ox-hide shields annihilated the guns and cannons of the British army.
  • one of the greatest triumphs in Zulu history and the only battle in which spears and ox-hide shields annihilated the guns and cannons of the British army.
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      When the British wanted to claim South Africa many tribes tried to defeat them but were disadvantaged partly to the low sources of food (due to white settlers) diseases brought on my said white settlers. the settlers also has access to firearms that these african tribes did not have.
  • The Zulus were not professional soldiers, but under Shaka Zulu in the early 1800s had became very adept at war.
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      Shaka Zulu led a strong expedition to defeat the white settlers after training and preparation they were successful
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  • "In fact Isandlwana is one of the most probably humiliating defeats of the British army ever," he said.
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      for the singular fact that the British did not expect to lose to the Zulu because they had firearms and weapons far beyond the spears and shields of the Zulu army
  • Out of 1,700 men at the Isandlwala garrison on the morning of the battle about 1,300 doom lay dead
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Guns, Race, and Skill in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa.pdf - 2 views

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  • Guns, Race, and Skill in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa
  • 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 the
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      how colonial South Africa got access to guns
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  • through the encouragement of traders and missionaries, more Africans took up firearms. They did so for many reasons, most prominently to gain sec
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      real reasons for africans procuring guns
  • ill. 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 while. The Xhosa were both good and bad marksmen, while the Mfengu were skilled and dangerous. The Sotho were "indifferently armed and were poor shots" before the 1870s, when they became "crack marksmen." The Zulu never integrated firearms completely into their military tactics, but by the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 some Zulu shot well because, according to a British government source, they had received instruction from redcoat deserters.4
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      africans were labeled according to their efficacy with firearms this is how colonial rulers categorized them by level of threat to skill
  • By juxtaposing Gramsci's theory and extensive historical evidence the Comaroffs explored the ways the Tswana debated customs, techniques, and habits that missionaries were promoting. The Comaroffs argue that the Tswana recognized that by accepting British dress, agricultural practices, and literacy they were accepting aspects of colonialist hegemony ranging from racial arrangements to epistemology and ontology. Perceptions of the world and the self, as well as perceptions of power, were bound up in everyday practice just as much as they were related to professing the Christian faith or pledging loyalty to the queen.8
  • ys the Tswana debated customs, techniques, and habits that missionaries were promoting. The Comaroffs argue that the Tswana recognized that by accepting British dress, agricultural practices, and literacy they were accepting aspects of colonialist hegemony ranging from racial arrangements to epistemology and ontology. Perceptions of the world and the self, as well as perceptions of power, were bound up in everyday practice just as much as they were related to professing the Christian faith or pledging loyalty to the qu
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      above all they wished to convert africans to thie way of euro standards
  • earlier part of the nineteenth century, people living in remote areas killed wildlife for food. At the same time, hunting was an important economic activity, as ivory, hides, and ostrich feathers commanded high prices on world markets. Hunting could even provide a better income than cattle farmin
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      again at first guns offered a way for people to find food to eat and survive as well as an "income" to be earned by trading certain commodities
  • more numerous were the guns and the hunters, the sooner would the game be destroyed or driven out of the coun
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      competition would have started and i believe that the white settlers wanted to be the only ones who benefitted from this hunting
  • Beginning about the 1860s, skilled labor became so scarce that southern African gunsmiths ceased assembling imported parts and began to import complete guns from Britain
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      at some point the white settlers used black labour (slavery) in order to fulfill their demand for guns
  • ry, frontiersmen like Africander were hired to hunt and track for European ivory merch
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      enro settlers used african labour to source their commodities (in a way this improved africans use and ability with and of guns)
  • There were other reasons why old guns retained their appeal in southern Africa longer than they did in other parts of the world. On the nineteenth-century southern African frontier, capital was scarce and game was plentiful; so long as plenty of game could be killed with primitive weapons, there was little incentive to adopt new guns such as the paper-cartridge breechloaders that became available in the 1850s and 1860s.25 Older weapons were a more adaptable and flexible technology than the new rifles, and happened to be less expensive, to
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      guns stayed an important piece of trade and value due to the nature of SA, there was much to hunt and kill which also didnt need newer better guns, so the guns in SA stayed "old styled"
  • n, Dutch farmers who migrated from the Cape northward in the early nineteenth century, gained a reputation as highly skilled marksm
  • noticeable characteristic of the period I allude to (say, twenty years ago), and at the time of the Boer war with us [the First Anglo-Boer War, 1880-81 ] all the middle-aged men, and a good many of the youngsters, were as a rule, and as compared with trained soldiers, very efficient shots." Nicholson added that as late as the 1890s some of the best shots still preferred flintlock muzzle loaders over modern breechloaders
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      the Boer had good shooters which were mostly middle aged and young men, i wonder who fought for the africans side and what weapons did they have access to?
  • out the Boer marksmen. Of the 24,238 men eligible to be called up for militia service, 9,996 did not own a rifle. Those who did tended to own Martini-Henrys, which were inferior to the British army's new magazine rifles, the Lee-Metford and the Lee-Enfield. The revived Boer reputation for marksmanship during the war of 1899-1902 was due in good part to Kruger's wise decision, shortly before the war, to buy thirty-seven thousand Mauser rifles, which were superior to the British weapons.29
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      tendaim on 25 Apr 23
       
      because of the decrease of animals and africans to hunt less and less Boers had practice or use for guns and so when they were called up it was hard as only a small percentage of them had the necessary marksmanship and skill to shoot
  • mong the English-speaking settlers of the Eastern Cape in the 1870s, many of whom worried that they, too, were insufficiently skilled with weapons. Their claims were ideologically charged and closely related to their efforts to dispossess and disenfranchise Africans.
  • tendaim on 25 Apr 23
     
    this article goes in depth in discussing how firearms reached and stayed in South Africa and why they were such a welcomed commodity and how it turned to war and the idea to take firearms away from Africans
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Full article: Guns, Race and Power in Colonial South Africa - 4 views

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  • Guns are both ubiquitous in colonial encounters and occupy an ambiguous place in early imperial enterprise
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      main idea why did guns have such a strong rise and hold during colonial times and why did the british allow Africans to have guns if they were knew that they did not want Africans to have a potential power over them?
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      main idea why did guns have such a strong rise and hold during colonial times and why did the british allow Africans to have guns if they were knew that they did not want Africans to have a potential power over them?
  • relationship of guns to notions of race and citizenship throughout the mid and late nineteenth century
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      main idea
  • guns were a central part of Xhosa and Zulu polities
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      tribal/race theme
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  • guns were integral to South African society
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      theme of guns
  • relationship of guns to notions of race and citizenship throughout the mid and late nineteenth century
  • The creation of the diamond and then gold industries fostered a great expansion of the market for firearms
  • 1870s with the development of longer-ranged weapons with the capacity to fire repeatedly and quickly.
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      theme of guns
  • who should own guns and precisely what that implied now became a central issue of the politics of citizenship.
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      tribal/ race theme
  • idea that gun ownership should be controlled along racial lines
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      tribal/race theme
  • John Gordon Sprigg, who saw guns in African hands as a threat to imperial rule
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      important tribal and racial theme
  • part of the trend to exclude from citizenship those with black skins, even if they qualified in terms of literacy or economic possessions.
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      main idea
  • the Hlubi chief Langalibelile and Theophilus Shepstone, the powerful secretary for native affairs, in Natal in the mid-1870s.
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      important
  • the Hlubi chief Langalibelile and Theophilus Shepstone, the powerful secretary for native affairs, in Natal in the mid-1870s.
  • the Cape in 1879 when the ninth Xhosa war was used as the excuse to pass the nicely named Peace Preservation Act which effectively provided the legal means to prohibit gun ownership on a racial basis.
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      important
  • Cape-Sotho War of 1879–80 which followed the attempt by the Cape government, led by Sprigg, to use the Peace Preservation Act to disarm the Sotho.
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      important
  • the Peace Preservation Act succeeded in imposing restraints upon African ownership of firearms
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      important
  • he Cape Colony, the home of South African liberalism
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      tendaim on 23 Apr 23
       
      shocking fact I just learned
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