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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

1811. Proclamation

The Cape Governor Cradock introduced circuit courts in 1811, which gave the 'Natives' "some protection against gross cruelty and neglect" (Simons & Simons 1969: 16).

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