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GONAGUAS (" borderers ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 230 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GONAGUAS (" borderers ")  , descendants of a very old
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cross between the
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Hottentots and the Kaffirs, on the " ethnical
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divide " between the two races, apparently before the arrival of t11e whites in South Africa . They have been always a despised
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race and regarded as outcasts by the
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Bantu peoples . They were threatened with extermination during the Kaffir
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wars, but were protected by the
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British . At
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present they live in settled communities under
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civil magistrates without any tribal organization, and in some districts could be scarcely distinguished from the other natives but for their broken Hottentot-Dutch-
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English speech .

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