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Griqualand East

historical region, South Africa
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Griqualand East, historical region of South Africa that now lies within interior southwestern KwaZulu-Natal province and adjacent areas of Eastern Cape province. In 1861 Adam Kok III, the chief of the Griqua people (a group of mixed white and Khoekhoe ancestry), led his people from what had become the Orange Free State to Griqualand East after many had been forced to sell their lands to white trekkers. The British hoped the Griquas would be a...

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