The Historian, the Premier and Forced Labour in the Cape Colony, 1878–1879

Colonial Britain's Convict Labour Policies and the Cape Colony, 1806-1899

“…Most of the Xhosa prisoners were sent to Cape Town. 94 A report in 1878 by the Kaffrarian Vigilance Association, comprising largely local white farmers, gives some insight into the colonist's punitive views on convict labour. The association recommended harsher sentences and convicts' deployment to industrial convict institutions to produce goods, or to private white employers, after completing a period of hard labour.…”