ABSTRACT
From the earliest days of European contaƸt there have been Bantu who have found their way into the towns, there to become servants or labourers. Their numbers were not great, but in every town or village in the eastern distriƸts of the Cape groups of natives began to be formed. In the thirties and forties of last century there were Fingos who held property in such towns as Uitenhage, where in 1844 they and the Hottentots were moved into a location, “ a new and inferior and waterless site at a more convenient distance from the town,” 1
