Chapter VII: Imperial Policy in South Africa

The Early Governors of Cape Colony and Their Difficulties--The Colonial Office and its Lack of Defined and Continuous Policy--Growth in England of Public Indifference to Colonies--Its Unfortunate Expression in 1852-54--Fluctuating Treatment of the Natives--Good Intentions and Mistaken Practices--Sir George Grey and South Africa--A Wise Statesman--His Policy of Confederation and Conciliation--Hampered by the Colonial Office and the Anti-Expansion School in England--The Non-intervention Policy and the Natives--Conditions in Natal--Importance of the Cape to the Empire--Importance of South Africa to the British People--Slow-growing Comprehension of these Facts in England--Sir Bartle Frere at the Cape--Eventual Repudiation of His Plans and Recall of the Best of South African Governors--The Gladstone Government's Responsibility for Succeeding Evils--The Absence of a Continuous Policy toward the Natives and Varied Questions of Territorial Extension Involve the Colonists in Constant Trouble and the Imperial Exchequer in Immense Expenditures--A Story of Imperial Burdens, Mistakes and Good Intentions; of Colonial Difficulties, Protests and Racial Complexities

CHAPTER VIII.

The Native Races of South Africa,

Origin, Character and Customs--The Bantu or Kaffirs--Offshoots Such as the Matabele and Zulus--Some Great Chiefs--Tchaka, Dingaan, Moshesh, Cetywayo and Khama--Merciless Character of Native Wars--Dealings with the English and the Dutch--Difference in National Methods of Treating Savages--Force, or Evidence of Power, the Surest Preservative of Peace--The Slaves of the Boer and the Slaves of the Savage--Result of Emancipation upon the Native--Result of Missionary Labour amongst the Tribes--Livingstone and Moffat--Imperial Problems in the Rule of Inferior Races--Strenuous British Efforts at Justice and Mercy--The Bible and the Bayonet, the Missionary and the Soldier--Extremes Meet in the Policy of the Dutch and English