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People: Lorenzo de' Medici

Dutch speakers denounce these actions as striking …

Years: 1828 - 1839
Dutch speakers denounce these actions as striking at the heart of their labor and land needs.

Those living in the eastern Cape, most of them among the poorer segment of the Dutch- speaking population, are particularly impassioned in their criticisms, and many decide to abandon their farms and to seek new lands beyond the reach of British rule.