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a little over 50 years before, in the early 19th century. The Griqua captains therefore did not automatically get the right to own and develop all of the land through which they moved, but only those areas in which they would settle. Other areas they could continue to move through, but were not given
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waived his country's rights in return for a payment of £90,000. These rulings were hugely controversial at the time and caused the over-worked
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who had retired due to ill health. However he tendered his resignation in 1878, in support of
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