A. B. Xuma: “Bridging the Gap between White and Black in South Africa”

Glossary

• A.M.E. Church African Methodist-Episcopal Church
• Anglo-Boer War also known as the Boer War and the South African War, 1899–1902
• Bartholomew Diaz Portuguese explorer who sailed south following the east coast of Africa in 1488. When he passed the Cape of Good Hope, he realized that he had found the way around the continent.
• Bushmen nomadic hunters of the Kalahari Desert, a term used in derogatory fashion by some whites to apply to all black Africans
• Colonel Denys Reitz South African minister of lands in the early 1920s
• colour bar the laws, reflected in cultural and social conventions, that enforced racial discrimination by whites against blacks in South Africa
• Daniel Webster American politician of the first half of the nineteenth century who served in both houses of Congress and as secretary of state under two presidents
• Dr. John R. Mott American Protestant lay missionary who founded the World's Student Christian Federation and spent time in South Africa
• A. G. Fraser British specialist in Christian missionary education
• G. P. Gooch Lord Courtney; British scholar, elected vice president of Witwatersrand University of Johannesburg who opposed the Anglo-Boer War and disapproved of land grabs and capitalist expansion of British entrepreneurs
• Great Dutch Trek of 1836 migration outward from the Cape Colony of white European settlers, also known as Voortrekkers, into the future Natal, Orange Free State, and Transvaal regions, motivated largely by dissatisfaction with newly imposed British rule, scarcity of good farmland in Cape Colony, and increasing population pressures
• Grondwet the constitution of the Boer community, begun in 1857
• Hottentots derogatory designation by whites of the pastoral, nomadic African people known as Khoikhoi, whose lands, in the early colonial period, the Dutch took over, killing great numbers of people