CHAPTER XXVII. 

 ZULU WAR OF 1878-1879. 



During and after the Zulu War of 1878-9, I 

 larged that Zululand should be kept as a native 

 reserve, no white man to be allowed to acquire land 

 over the Tugela River, the natives to remain under 

 native law, subject to a low taxation to provide for 

 the salaries of a British Resident and Magistrates. 

 Further, that the Laws in Natal should be made 

 sufficiently stringent to induce the bulk of the lately 

 imported Zulus to re-migrate into the reserve, and 

 to some extent deplete Natal of a rapidly increasing 

 but non-working black population, which might at 

 any time become a source of danger owing to agrarian 

 trouble ; as they with their system of cultivation 

 and stock raising require such large areas for 

 occupation. 



My idea then being to retain the temperate 

 portion of South Africa for the white man, such zone 

 to be determined by a railway system from Cape 

 Town to Delagoa Bay to begin with, and to be 

 extended with increase of population. The chance 

 of carrying out such a policy was made impossible 

 by Sir Garnet Wolseley's settlement of Zululand, 

 and the subsequent action of Mr. Gladstone's Govern- 

 ment, which refused to accept any responsibility for 

 the country. Dinizulu, aided by the Utrecht Boers, 

 defeated the loyal chief "Usibepu," the principal 

 chief of Sir Garnet's appointing. The Boers acquired 

 the district of Vrijheid, then in Zululand. Dinizulu, 

 who was found to be the centre of unrest, was 

 deported to St. Helena, but was repatriated later 



