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This is episode 27 and we\u2019re dealing with the period in the first half of 1700 \u2013 give or take a decade.
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\nLast episode we heard how the TrekBoer economy had developed and a new farmer had emerged on the landscape called the Boer.
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\nThe descendents of Dutch and French immigrants were beginning to expand their footprint across southern Africa and of course the repercussions were enormous.
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\nRemember last episode we heard the minister of the Church at Drakenstein Petrus van Arkel who had written an extraordinary letter to Governor De Charonnes based in Cape Town. The minister had been shocked by a report he\u2019d just received about the actions of a settler raiding party which made it all the way to Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape and they had been particularly brutal in their treatment of the Khoi.
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\nA party of 70 barterers \u2013 or as the Minister pointed out \u2013 murderers and robbers \u2013 had taken 200 rixdollars worth of goods with them when they setout from Stellenbosch and headed to the Gonakkens as the Dutch called them \u2013 the Gonaqua near present day Qeberga or Port Elizabeth.
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\nThe tribe was massacred and all their cattle and sheep were carried off. The Gonaqua who survived followed the Dutch raiding party and begged to be killed or taken captive as they were going to starve to death without their animals. Van Arkel back in Drakenstein was briefed by the shocked Khoi from the Peninsular who had joined the raiding expedition not realizing it was going to be a murdering expedition.