_Administration and Justice._--The Cape administrative and judicial
system is in force, save as modified by special enactments of the Cape
parliament. A "Native Territories Penal Code" which came into
operation on the 1st of January 1887 governs the relations of the
natives, who are under the jurisdiction of a chief magistrate
(resident at Cape Town) with subordinate magistrates in the
Territories. In civil affairs the tribal organization and native laws
are maintained. No chief, however, exercises criminal jurisdiction.
Since 1898 certain provisions of the Glen Grey Act have been applied
to Kaffraria (see GLEN GREY). The revenue is included in the ordinary
budget of the Cape province. The expenditure on Kaffraria considerably
exceeds the revenue derived from it. The franchise laws are the same
as in the Cape proper. Though the Kaffirs outnumber the whites by
fifty to one, white men form the bulk of the electorate, which in 1904
numbered 4778.
_Religion._--Numbers of Protestant missionary societies have churches
and educational establishments in Kaffraria, but, except in Fingoland,
the bulk of the Kaffirs are heathen. The Griquas profess Christianity
and have their own churches and ministers. The Anglican diocese of St
John's, Kaffraria, was founded in 1873.
_Annexation to the Cape._--The story of the conflicts between the Kaffir
tribes and the Cape colonists is told under CAPE COLONY. As early as
1819 Kaffirland, or Kaffraria, was held not to extend west beyond the
Keiskamma River. The region east of that river as far as the Kei River
became in 1847 the Crown colony of British Kaffraria, and was annexed to
Cape Colony in 1865. The Transkeian territories remained in nominal
independence until 1875, when the Tembu sought British protection. An
inter-tribal war in 1877 between Fingo and Gcaleka resulted in the
territory of the Gcaleka chief Kreli being occupied by the British. It
was not, however, till 1879 that Fingoland and the Idutywa Reserve,
together with the district then commonly called Noman's-land, were
proclaimed an integral part of the Cape. About this time most of the
rest of Kaffraria came under British control, but it was 1885 before
Gcalekaland, the coast region of Transkei, and the various districts
comprising Tembuland--Bomvanaland on the coast, Tembuland Proper and
Emigrant Tembuland--were annexed to the colony. By the annexation, the
frontier of the colony was carried to the Umtata River, so that by 1885
only Pondoland, fronting on the Indian Ocean, separated the Cape from
Natal. In Pondoland, Port St John, proclaimed British territory in 1881,
was, along with the lower reaches of the St John's River, incorporated
with Cape Colony in 1884; in 1886 the Xesibe country (Mount Ayliff) was
annexed to the Cape and added to Griqualand East; and in the following
year Rhode Valley was included within the boundary line. The rest of
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