Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- List of sources
- Terminology
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE The incorporation of the Khoesan into the colonial body politic
- PART TWO Colonial crisis and the establishment of a new order, 1848–1853
- Chapter 12 Convicts and the franchise
- Chapter 13 Rebellion in the Kat River valley
- Chapter 14 The rebellion spreads
- Chapter 15 The franchise
- Chapter 16 Uithaalder's vision of the rules of war
- PART THREE Post-rebellion politics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 16 - Uithaalder's vision of the rules of war
from PART TWO - Colonial crisis and the establishment of a new order, 1848–1853
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2018
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- List of sources
- Terminology
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE The incorporation of the Khoesan into the colonial body politic
- PART TWO Colonial crisis and the establishment of a new order, 1848–1853
- Chapter 12 Convicts and the franchise
- Chapter 13 Rebellion in the Kat River valley
- Chapter 14 The rebellion spreads
- Chapter 15 The franchise
- Chapter 16 Uithaalder's vision of the rules of war
- PART THREE Post-rebellion politics
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Document 75: Willem Uithaalder to Governor Sir George Cathcart
25 May 1852
My Esteemed Sir; General
I embrace this opportunity to write you a letter. We inform you that we are exceedingly grieved in consequence of what we see with our eyes, that your Excellency fights with women and children, that is, makes war with them, for where all were fighting it was against men. Women and children we always excepted; that is according to proclamation. We hope not that Your Excellency will do the same as Sir H. Smith and Colonel Somerset. We were in the neighbourhood of Bathurst; there we fought men that had guns; these we shot down, and those who had no guns we excepted. This is according to proclamation.
And furthermore, if your Excellency wishes to speak with us, it is practicable for you to speak with us, because our hostilities are distinct from those of the Kafirs.
I, your servant
Wm. Uithaalder.
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- These Oppressions Won't CeaseAn Anthology of the Political Thought of the Cape Khoesan, 1777–1879, pp. 152Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2017