S.Africa: Boer History: 1854: Blacks murder 23 Boers – Boer Revenge Raid kills 2,700

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[Here is an amazing story of the time when the Boers were fighting Black tribes directly. These old wars are fascinating and I'm very interested in them because thanks to Liberalism and Communism, Boers as well as other Whites are going to find themselves going back CENTURIES, back to the way things were in the past. This type of small scale warfare with punitive raids is what lies ahead in the future, not just in South Africa. Americans and Canadians used to do this to the Indians. You can thank Jews and Liberals for taking us back a few centuries. By the estimates given in the story below, the Boers ended up killing about 2,700 Blacks. Everything the Boers did here, is the correct way to punish other races. This is how you do it. Starving them out was a brilliant move. Jan]

**October 25, 1854: The Siege of Makapans Cave**

In October 1854, a Boer hunting party consisting of 23 men, women, and children was brutally murdered by the people of Makapan (also spelled Magopane, Mokopane, or Makapaan) and Mapela, chiefs of small indigenous tribes in the Waterberg area of the Soutpansberg district, near present-day Makananspoort. The bodies of the victims were horrifically mutilated, and the leader of the party, Hermanus Potgieter, brother of the Voortrekker leader A.H. Potgieter was killed alive. In response to these brutal acts, Commandant-General Piet Potgieter, son of A.H. Potgieter organized a punitive expedition against Makapan in conjunction with M.W. Pretorius, Commandant-General of Potchefstroom. Pretorius joined him on October 24, and with a combined force of about 535 men, they set out against Makapan.

Makapan fled before the Boers and fortified himself with his followers in the current Makapans Cave, approximately 23 km from Potgietersrus. The cave is about 200 meters long, 150 meters wide, and up to 20 meters high in places. It would have been dangerous to attempt to storm the cave directly as it was very dark inside and the enemy was also firing at them with guns they had traded from English smugglers. In light of this, the Boers began on this day to seal off and besiege the cave in order to force the enemy into surrender through starvation.

On November 6, 1854, Piet Potgieter ventured recklessly in front of the mouth of the cave and was fatally struck by an enemy bullet. Under heavy enemy fire, Field Cornet Paul Kruger, later President of the ZAR, performed a heroic deed by rescuing Potgieter’s body from the mouth of the cave under covering fire from his comrades. After a siege lasting 25 days, a small group of Boers managed to penetrate the cave and overwhelmed the starving enemy with little resistance. Approximately 900 indigenous people were shot dead during the siege in front of the cave, while more than twice that number perished inside from hunger and thirst, nearly annihilating Makapan’s tribe.

Less success was initially achieved against Mapela, who caused increasing trouble with audacity until a punitive commando was also raised against him in 1858, in which Paul Kruger also played an important role. Mapela’s power was ultimately broken by this punitive commando.

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