ment proceeded to appoint magistrates with instructions to undermine the
authority of the chiefs, as they were doing in Xhosa country. Resentment by
the chiefs led to a popular uprising in I880, when the colonial prime
minister announced that the government would increase taxation and en-
force a law for the disarmament of the Sotho. Using guerrillatactics honed
in their wars against the Orange Free State, some 23,000 armed and
mounted Sotho. warriors outmaneuvered
the government's poorly led
amalgam of white, Coloured, and African police, volunteers, and con-
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