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oapen-20.500.12657-310242024-03-25T09:51:44Z These Oppressions Won't Cease Ross, Robert african history Anambé language Andries Stockenström Baster Kat River Khoikhoi Netherlands Niet South Africa Vagrancy Yongnan languages thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history In the early nineteenth century, the linguistic situation of the Eastern Cape was changing among the Cape Khoesan. Their indigenous language, Cape Khoekhoe, was swiftly being replaced by Dutch or Proto-Afrikaans. The Cape Khoesan articulated their continuous critique of the oppressions of European colonialism through petitions, speeches at meetings and letters to the newspapers. Communication with British officialdom, and in general, was mostly in English or translated into English by the administration.These translations are published in the anthology selected and compiled by Robert Ross, These Oppressions Wonâ t Cease (Wits University Press, 2017). In this supplementary edition, the author has made a compilation of the Dutch texts on which those documents are based. It is a supplement that presents the few original Dutch speeches and letters that survived, thereby giving readers and scholars access to the â raw dataâ . Most importantly, the supplement provides a unique record of the Khoesanâ s resistance, in their own voices, to European settler colonialism. 2017-11-01 23:55:55 2019-03-20 09:23:00 2020-04-01T13:21:09Z 2020-04-01T13:21:09Z 2016 book 640333 OCN: 1030816446 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31024 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 640333.pdf Wits University Press 10.18772/12017112095 10.18772/12017112095 c522c2dd-daf5-4926-bf1a-ee1557d24a4b 33 Johannesburg open access
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In the early nineteenth century, the linguistic situation of the Eastern Cape was changing among the Cape Khoesan. Their indigenous language, Cape Khoekhoe, was swiftly being replaced by Dutch or Proto-Afrikaans. The Cape Khoesan articulated their continuous critique of the oppressions of European colonialism through petitions, speeches at meetings and letters to the newspapers. Communication with British officialdom, and in general, was mostly in English or translated into English by the administration.These translations are published in the anthology selected and compiled by Robert Ross, These Oppressions Wonâ t Cease (Wits University Press, 2017). In this supplementary edition, the author has made a compilation of the Dutch texts on which those documents are based. It is a supplement that presents the few original Dutch speeches and letters that survived, thereby giving readers and scholars access to the â raw dataâ . Most importantly, the supplement provides a unique record of the Khoesanâ s resistance, in their own voices, to European settler colonialism.
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