en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nongqawuse
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recently established colony of British Kaffraria
This is anachronistic: British Kaffraria was not established until late 1847, so it could not have been a "recently established" colony when Nongqawuse was born in 1841.
Full reasoning
The sentence places Nongqawuse's birth in 1841 and then describes the nearby British colony as the "recently established colony of British Kaffraria." That timeline does not work.
South African History Online states that "On 23 December 1847 the lands between the Keiskamma and Great Kei Rivers were annexed to the Cape Colony" and that "The new territory, known as British Kaffraria" was created then. Britannica likewise summarizes that the British "annexed the general area of Kaffraria again in December 1847, this time as the crown colony of British Kaffraria."
So if Nongqawuse was born in 1841, British Kaffraria did not yet exist. The phrase is therefore historically inaccurate as written. A more accurate formulation would describe her as being born near territory that later became or would later border British Kaffraria, or would date the border relationship to the 1850s rather than to 1841.
2 sources
- British Kaffraria, now the Border Region | South African History Online
On 23 December 1847 the lands between the Keiskamma and Great Kei Rivers were annexed to the Cape Colony. The new territory, known as British Kaffraria, was divided into seven counties...
- Kaffraria | Meaning, South Africa, Xhosa people, British Colony, & Eastern Cape | Britannica
The British later annexed the general area of Kaffraria again in December 1847, this time as the crown colony of British Kaffraria.