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Publications & Reports

Bleek disbelievingly reports the repulsion of Free State Burghers at Thaba Bosiu, Moshesh's fortress-like Mountian of the Night. He relays that the Burgher Commando made a powerful impression that will situate them well during peace negotiations. The former Basuto territory held by burghers must be colonised immediately by those most deserving. Bleek dissonantly underscores the Basotho's "present humiliation" as necessitating their reasonable terms and that the threat of meting out the adjacent country ("Lesuto") is compelling. A frontier police force would best secure the porous border. The threat of starvation would impinge the Basuto morale, so the aristocracy's punishment should not extend to their proletariat subjects, who should be allowed home upon continued good behaviour and surrender of arms. The Basuto families settled on these farms will become the burghers' agricultural workforce, and the presence of family might "guarantee [...] their peaceful tenure". The non-racial justice of a civilised government offers a less anarchic and more peaceful, predictable alternative. The newfound prosperity of the Fingoes (amaMfengu) proves this, surpassing their "former masters" (the amaXhosa?).

Printed newsprint glued on paper

31/08/1865

Two cut out columns of newsprint text, positioned vertically parallel, pasted onto a plus-sized A4 unlined sheet with visible warping. No title was subsequently handwritten onto the mount/paper backing.