GRIQUA & BOER LAW AGAINST THE SAN (BUSHMEN) Johnathan Muller posted in !khora//xou//ais House on 12th September 2013 at 7:31pm The Griqua relationship with the San is an equally controversial issue, and nothing seems to have come of the promised protection of the San. 9 Both Ross10 and Davenport and Saunders 11 remark on the “brutality” with which the Griquas treated the San. The Griqua attitude to the San is shown by the Griqua Law passed on 8 October 1846 whereby only those San who were either under mission influence or under contract with a Boer or Griqua, and registered as such with the British Resident or with Adam Kok III, would be allowed into Griqua territory. 12 In the final result, the San were the real losers in the “tragedy” of the Transgarieb” * In the introductory chapter of his book on Adam Kok’s Griquas, Robert Ross states: _
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