- £1600.00
MAGOEPA (MALABOCH) WAR. 1894 stampless cover sent registered to Pretoria written by a Boer soldier and endorsed ‘Velddienst’. A PIETERSBURG 7 SEP 94 dispatch cancel is on the back. Malebogo became chief of the Bahananwa, a group of the Tswana peoples in 1880. He led the Bahananwa to the Blouberg, about 110 kms from Pietersburg and close to the Soutpansberg Range. He saw the Transvaal Boers as intruders who were trying to change his way of life and refused to have his territory demarcated in 1888; nor would he have his huts recorded for tax purposes in 1891. Ignoring instructions to leave his mountain fortress, he prepared for war. On 27 April 1894 and again on 7th May, officials of the Transvaal Republic sent ultimatums to him, but Malebogo ignored them. General Joubert built a string of fortresses around Blouberg and basically starved Malebogo out. He surrendered on 31st July. A small Boer force was kept in the area for a couple of months after his surrender. A very rare cover from this War.
