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Leliefontein, Massacre at,
March 1902
The Methodist mission at Leliefontein, in Namaqualand in the northwestern Cape, was the location of
a black African settlement. Between twenty and thirty of the inhabitants were slaughtered when the
township was sacked by Senior Commandant S. G. (Manie) Maritz and his men.
Deneys Reitz came upon the scene soon after. He wrote: “We found the place sacked and gutted,
and, among the rocks beyond the burned houses, lay twenty or thirty dead Hottentots, still clutching
their antiquated muzzleloaders. This was Maritz’s handiwork. He had ridden into the station with a
few men, to interview the European missionaries, when he was set upon by armed Hottentots, he and
his escort narrowly escaping with their lives. To avenge the insult, he returned next morning with a
stronger force and wiped out the settlement, which seemed to many of us a ruthless and unjustifiable
act. General Smuts said nothing, but I saw him walk past the boulders where the dead lay, and on his
return he was moody and curt, as was his custom when displeased.”
See also:
Cape Colony, Invasions of.
Reference:
Jackson, Tabitha, The Boer War (London, Macmillan, 1999); Reitz, Deneys, Commando (London,
Faber & Faber, 1929; Prescott, Arizona, Wolfe Publishing, 1994); Warwick, Peter, Black
People and the South African War 1899–1902 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
1983).
Lindley, Battle of,
31 May 1900
The town of Lindley, located between Bethlehem and Kroonstadt in the Orange Free State, provided a
commando for the Boer forces while resident Englishmen, such as Charlie Moses, took an oath of
neutrality and were allowed to remain. Moses reports that when Christiaan De Wet was collecting
men on 19 March 1900, he threatened to shoot any man who refused to be commandeered for service
and to deal similarly with any British neutral who spoke against the Boers. The town was taken on 17
May by Major-general R. G. Broadwood’s 2nd Cavalry Brigade, but was left undefended when he
moved on three days later. It changed hands several times during the course of the war. On 27 May
the 13th (Irish) Imperial Yeomanry entered the town but soon retired to take positions on kopjes to the
north-west.
Instead of retreating to Kroonstadt, Lieutenant-colonel Basil Spragge decided to stay at Lindley
and sent messages to Lieutenant-general Sir Henry Colvile at Kroonstadt and to Lieutenant-general
Sir Leslie Rundle at Senekal for relief. The former continued his advance on Heilbron and the latter
undertook a diversionary action at Biddulphsberg. Spragge’s unit had been raised by Lord
Donoughmore and was officered by titled volunteers from Ireland; Lords Longford, Ennismore and
Leitrim were among them, an extreme example of the landed gentry rallying to their country’s cause.
There Vecht-general Piet De
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