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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 60 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PONDO , a Kaffir

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PEOPLE

people who have given their name to Pondoland, the

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COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country comprising much of the seaboard of

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KAFFRARIA

Kaffraria, Cape

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province, immediately to the

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west of

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NATAL

Natal . The Pondo, who number about 200,000, are divided into several tribal

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groups, but the native

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government, since the

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ANNEXATION (Lat. ad, to, and nexus, joining)

annexation of the country to Cape

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COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

Colony in 1894, has been subject to the

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CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control of the colonial authorities .

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