The view from the Toposcope
talking to the Xhosa Genealogy
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The House of Phalo, Hinsati, Inqua, Tshiwo, Phalo, Gando, Hoengiqua Khoi, Khwane, amaGqunukhwebe, Rharhabe, Mdange, amaMbalu, Fontier ConflictsAbstract
It is now more than forty years since the publication of my first book, The House of Phalo (1981), during which time I have done a little more research and discovered many more mistakes. A revised edition is in the pipeline (but it’s a very long pipeline), and I greatly appreciate the kind opportunity offered by the Lower Albany Historical Society to air some of my revisions via PowerPoint, which I will now attempt to clarify and substantiate. I append a short Bibliography for readers who would like to investigate further and, rather than lumping everything together into one long and tedious chronological narrative, propose to present you with a sort of highlights package, which you should be able to follow with the assistance of Margaret Snodgrass’s excellent genealogical table.
References
Crampton, Hazel et al, Into the Hitherto Unknown: Ensign Beutler’s Expedition to the Eastern Cape, 1752 (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, Series II, No. 44, 2013)
Kay, Stephen, Travels and Researches in Caffraria (London, 1833).
Maclennan, Ben, A Proper Degree of Terror: John Graham and the Cape’s Eastern Frontier (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1986).
Peires, Jeff, “The other side of the black silk handkerchief: the Van Plettenburg Agreement of 1778,” Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, Vol 62 (1), 2008.
Vigne, Randolph, Guillaume Chenu de Chalezac, the ‘french boy’ (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society , Series II, No 22, 1993)
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