in the towns and villages as far away as Cape Town.22
Throughout
most of 1857 social relations bordered on anarchy, as
amathamba plundered amagogotya for food. Sir George Grey took advan-
tage of the occasion to relegate the British Kaffrarian chiefs to the sidelines,
while real power was exercised by magistrates and their African assistants.
He also used the opportunity created by the depopulation of the territory to
make more land available in British Kaffraria for white settlement, notably
for a group of German immigrants.P
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