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Encyclopedia Britannica



GLEN GREY

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 121 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GLEN GREY , a division of the Cape province
south
  of the Stormberg, adjoining on the
east
  the Transkeian Territories. Pop. (1904) 55,107.
Chief
 . town Lady Frere, 32 M. N.E. of Queens-town. The
district
  is well watered and fertile, and large quantities of cereals are grown. Over 96% of the inhabitants are of the Zulu-Xosa (Kaffir) race, and a considerable
part
  of the
district
  was settled during the Kaffir wars of Cape Colony by Tembu (Tambookies) who were 'granted a location by the colonial government in recognition of their loyalty to the British. Act No. 25 of 1894 of the Cape
parliament
 , passed at the instance of Cecil Rhodes, which laid down the basis upon which is effected the
change
  of
land
 
tenure
  by natives from communal to individual holdings, and also dealt with native local self-government and the labour question, applied in the first instance to this division, and is known as the Glen Grey Act (see CAPE COLONY: History). The provisions of the act respecting individual
land
 
tenure
  and local self-government were in 1898 applied, with certain modifications, to the Transkeian Territories. The division is named after Sir George Grey,
governor
  of Cape Colony 1854-1861.


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