The Life and Times of Cupido Kakkerlak
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8980889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | V C Malherbe (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 365-378 |
| Publication date | 1979-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700017369 |
| OpenAlex | W2118605719 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 6 |
Cupido Kakkerlak's story provides a concrete example of Khoi experience under the impact of colonization at the beginning of the nineteenth century. During his first forty years or so he lived on Boer farms, learned a sawyer's skills, accumulated a little property and reared a family. In 1800, probably as a result of frontier disturbances at the time, he went to the village of Graaff-Reinet. There, in 1801, he met missionaries of the London Missionary Society and was converted. Casting his lot with the mission, he moved with his family to Algoa Bay and was based at Bethelsdorp until 1815. During this period he practised his trade as a sawyer at the same time as he gained prominence in mission work. In 1813 he served as John Campbell's ‘travelling director’ during a trip to the interior that lasted almost nine months. Campbell's proposals – that a number of new stations be established – made heavy demands on mission personnel and other resources. Six ‘native assistants’ were appointed, one of whom was Cupido. In 1817, after a short sojourn among the Griqua, he undertook a mission to the still nomadic Kora near the Harts River. Six years later, when difficulties both in and outside the mission society had multiplied, his services were abruptly terminated. He was then over sixty years of age. For frontier Khoi, hopeful of a new dispensation in the wake of the 1799–1802 war, the L.M.S. missionaries had provided an undreamt-of opportunity. In the interaction between missionary and Khoi, in the first stages of the mission project, Cupido played a leading part
Ancient history · Archaeology · Frontier · Genealogy · History · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2018 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |