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EXPERIENCE Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape is home to the Xhosa, the first of South Africa’s Bantu-speaking peoples to come into conflict with European settlers. In 1820, the British colonial administration shipped 4,000 British settlers to Port Elizabeth to buffer the established Cape Colony against the Xhosa living on the other side of the Great Fish River. Tensions came to a head in 1857, when, inspired by a visitation received by a teenage girl called ...