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CONFIDENTIAL.
African. No. 311.
اليري
Printed for the use of the Cabinet and the Colonial Office.
Further Memorandum on the Situation in Central Zulu- land, with Suggestions as to the course which it will be most advisable for us to take in that country under exist- ing circumstances.
The object of my previous Memorandum was to show the need there is for an intervention by us in the affairs of that portion of the Zulu country which lies beyond the Reserve Territory. In this further Memorandum I venture to submit some suggestions respecting the course to be taken and the objects to be sought by us in such an intervention.
2. There are two distinct parties with whom we shall have to deal in dealing with Central Zululand :-(1) the Boers who have established an independent community there, and who are in actual occupation of a certain portion of the country; and (2) the Usutu chiefs and leaders as representing the bulk of the native population in that part of the country.
It is to a compact between these two parties that the present unfortunate situation is due; but their claims are now, as their interests must always be, utterly opposed to one another.
8. The chief difficulty in dealing with these two parties will arise botli from the nature of their respective claims, and from the incompatibility of those claims with one another. The Boers claim, under the agreement concluded with Dinuzulu and the Usutu leaders in August, 1884, rights which would give them the greater part of Central Zululand and a control over the rest of the country and over the Zulu people occupying it, and they will naturally be disposed to object to any interference by us after so great a length of time. The Usutu leaders, on the other hand, would virtually repudiate the agreement of August, 1884, would limit the territorial concession to be made to the Boers to a certain piece of territory
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