ABSTRACT
Under a system of responsible government, whatever its vicissitudes, it must always in the last resort be Parliament that determines policy and settles the constitution of the Cabinet, just as it must in a practical manner be the Cabinet that gives advice to the Crown or its representative. The war was over at last in June 1878. The peace that followed is of especial interest in the history of native policy. It laid the basis of all future Cape native policy. Out of it grew ultimately the Transkeian Territories and the well-known system of native government developed there. Colonial opinion insisted that reforms such as the introduction of individual tenure should not seriously affect the market for native labour or its cheapness. The average colonist therefore welcomed the system of individual tenure and the abolition of the chieftainship, because these reforms promised to put an end to what was called “the give and take protective system” of tribal life.
