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Luka Jantjie - Resistance Hero of the South African Frontier (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
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Luka Jantjie - Resistance Hero of the South African Frontier (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
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Luka Jantjie is today a largely forgotten hero of resistance to
British colonialism. His place in South African history has tended
to be overshadowed by events elsewhere in the region. This book
attempts to redress the balance by recording his remarkable story.
In 1870, at the beginning of the Kimberley diamond mining boom that
was to transform southern Africa, Luka Jantjie was the first
independent African ruler to lose his land to the new colonialists,
who promptly annexed the diamond fields. His outspoken stand
against the hypocrisy of colonial 'justice' earned him the epithet:
"a wild fellow who hates the English." As the son of an early
Christian convert, Luka was brought up to respect peace and
non-violence; his boycott of rural trading stores in the early
1890s was perhaps the earliest use of non-violent resistance in
colonial South Africa. His steady refusal to bow to colonial
demands of subservience intensified the enmity of local colonists
determined to "teach him a lesson". As many of his people succumbed
to colonial pressures, Luka was twice forced to take up arms to
defend himself and his people from colonial attacks. His life ended
in a dramatic and heroic last stand in the ancestral sanctuary of
the Langeberg mountain range; its tragic consequences stretched far
into the next century.
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