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Last episode we heard about Doctor Somerville\u2019s expedition to Dithakong which was interesting but a failure in terms of its main aim. That was to secure cattle \u2013 he came back with only around 160 or so when the Cape needed a few hundred at least.
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\nAlso on the move was the London Missionary Society\u2019s Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp \u2013 remember him?
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\nHe had arrived in Graaff-Reinet in May 1801 joined by James Read replacing poor Edmonds who had a nervous breakdown while at Ngqika\u2019s Great Place.
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\nAfter the barren prothelytising disappointments of the Zuurveld, Graaff-Reinet offered something new. The village and its outskirts were packed with Khoekhoe seeking protection from the Boers and the Khoesan bandits and who responded eagerly to the van der Kemp\u2019s preaching.
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\nON hand was commissioner Maynier \u2013 encouraging and helping them. Staring at all of this and aghast, were the Boers of the region. It was a seething hotbed of trekboer resistance to British rule. Maynier\u2019s principal task was to restore stability along the frontier. This meant getting the fugitive Boers back on their farms and reviving the economy so that they could supply meat to the Cape.
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\nUnfortunately for the Khoekhoe, it also meant convincing them to go back and work for the trekboers. To help balance things and motivate the Khoe, Maynier opened an employment register where wages were written down for the first time. Cases of ill-treatment of workers were also listed and there was recourse to the law. It\u2019s easy enough to criticize this treatment, what about the Khoe abused by the Boers you\u2019d ask? Were they not to receive justice?
\nNdlambe was on the lamb after escaping from Ngqika\u2019s Great Place in February 1800 and had reunited with his adherent in the Zuurveld. He was reestablishing his power at the same time but it was hard work. Chungwa of the amaGqunukhwebe was resisting his advances both metaphorically and physically.