Sekhukhune II and the Pedi Operations ofthe Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902

dc.creator	Felix Malunga
dc.date	2012-02-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T20:09:29Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T20:09:29Z
dc.identifier	10.5787/31-1-141
dc.identifier	2224-0020
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/3f189c30370145ada46719b51e2c71da
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/9023
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/3f189c30370145ada46719b51e2c71da
dc.description	<p>In this paper an attempt will be made to demonstrate how the Pedi under the leadership of Sekhukhune II took advantage of wartime conditions during the Anglo - Boer War to reshape the pattern of colonial relations imposed on them by the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, to attempt to re-establish the dominance of the Sekhukhune House in the eastern Transvaal and to negotiate favourable terms with the occupying British military forces once the ZAR was defeated.</p><p>It will also be shown that often Sekhukhune II deliberately followed a policy of not eliminating republican govemment officials, Boer farmers and their families as well as the Berlin missionaries in order not to antagonise the British and Boer military authorities against him. However, Sekhukhune II subjected all these groups to frequent harassment. Another primary aim of Sekhukhune II was to concentrate on punishing "sell-out usurpers" of the Pedi paramountcy who had betrayed the Pedi polity by pledging allegiance to Abel Erasmus, the Native Commissioner, who had represented Boer hegemony over the Pedi between 1881 and 1899.</p><p>Again, Sekhukhune II punished Pedi Christian converts of the Berlin missionary society who had abandoned and undermined Pedi traditions and culture by converting and adhering to Christian principles. In this respect, a number of Berlin mission stations became battlefields of the warring Pedi factions. In the process these mission stations were neutralised as centres of the Berlin missionary activities. It was only after 1902 that attempts were made by the missionary authorities to rebuild these mission stations.</p>
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)
dc.relation	http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/141
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0020
dc.source	Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol 31, Iss 1 (2012)
dc.subject	Pedi operations
dc.subject	Sekhukhune II
dc.subject	Anglo-Boer War
dc.subject	Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek
dc.subject	Abel Erasmus, the Native Commissioner
dc.subject	Military Science
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
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dc.title	Sekhukhune II and the Pedi Operations ofthe Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
dc.type	Article