caused the Afrikaners to evacuate their settlements in the area. During the
1880s, however, Afrikaners began to reoccupy the vicinity, and in 1898 a
force of four thousand Whites, with Swazi and Tsonga allies, stormed the
main Venda stronghold.P
In spite of their losses in the Mfecane and the wars of conquest, Africans
continued to constitute a vast majority of the population of the entire
region, and of everypart of it east of the twenty-inch rainfall line. This isthe
great and fundamental difference between the outcome of the conquest of
the indigenous peoples in North America and South Africa. The Native
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