Dingaan-Retief Treaty
- Authors: Hunt, Keith S
- Subjects: Dingane, King of the Zulu, approximately 1793-1840 , Retief, Pieter, 1780-1838 , Gardiner, Allen Francis , Culture conflict -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal , Evidence, Documentary -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal , KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Foreign relations -- Treaties , KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- History -- 1824-1842
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/19514 , vital:22454 , MS 19 311 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: On 6th February 1838 the life of Piet Retief moved towards its great climax and death along with those of his entourage at the hands of Dingaan's warriors. Retief had gone to Umgungundlovu, Dingaan's kraal, to receive from Dingaan a cession of the land between the Tugela and the Umzimvubu Rivers. The grant of this land is said to have been made in a document dated Feb. 1838 but which circumstantial evidence suggests might have been signed on the 6 Feb. The document which has been regarded by some as a sort of title deed to Natal is an enigma which Retief has bequeathed to historians.
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- Authors: Hunt, Keith S
- Subjects: Dingane, King of the Zulu, approximately 1793-1840 , Retief, Pieter, 1780-1838 , Gardiner, Allen Francis , Culture conflict -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal , Evidence, Documentary -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal , KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Foreign relations -- Treaties , KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- History -- 1824-1842
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/19514 , vital:22454 , MS 19 311 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: On 6th February 1838 the life of Piet Retief moved towards its great climax and death along with those of his entourage at the hands of Dingaan's warriors. Retief had gone to Umgungundlovu, Dingaan's kraal, to receive from Dingaan a cession of the land between the Tugela and the Umzimvubu Rivers. The grant of this land is said to have been made in a document dated Feb. 1838 but which circumstantial evidence suggests might have been signed on the 6 Feb. The document which has been regarded by some as a sort of title deed to Natal is an enigma which Retief has bequeathed to historians.
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A molecular analysis of the Afrotropical Baetidae
- Gattolliat, J L, Monaghan, M T, Sartori, Michel, Elouard, J M, Barber-James, Helen M, Derleth, P, Glaizot, Olivier, De Moor, Ferdy C, Vogler, Alfred P
- Authors: Gattolliat, J L , Monaghan, M T , Sartori, Michel , Elouard, J M , Barber-James, Helen M , Derleth, P , Glaizot, Olivier , De Moor, Ferdy C , Vogler, Alfred P
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:528 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008393
- Description: Recent work on the Afrotropical Baetidae has resulted in a number of important taxonomic changes: several polyphyletic genera have been split and more than 30 new Afrotropical genera have been established. In order to test their phylogenetic relevance and to clarify the suprageneric relationships, we reconstructed the first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the Afrotropical Baetidae. We sequenced a total of ca. 2300 bp from nuclear (18S) and mitochondrial (12S and 16S) gene regions from 65 species belonging to 26 genera. We used three different approaches of phylogeny reconstruction: direct optimization, maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood. The molecular reconstruction indicates the Afrotropical Baetidae require a global revision at a generic as well as suprageneric level. Only four of the 12 genera were monophyletic when represented by more than one species in the analysis. Historically, two conflicting concepts of the suprageneric classification of Afrotropical Baetidae were proposed. One was based on the gathering of sister genera into complexes and the other on the division of the family into a restricted number of subfamilies. According to our reconstruction, neither is completely satisfactory: the major complexes of genera present in Africa are either paraphyletic or polyphyletic and the division of the Afrotropical Baetidae into two subfamilies is probably too simplified.
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- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: Gattolliat, J L , Monaghan, M T , Sartori, Michel , Elouard, J M , Barber-James, Helen M , Derleth, P , Glaizot, Olivier , De Moor, Ferdy C , Vogler, Alfred P
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:528 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008393
- Description: Recent work on the Afrotropical Baetidae has resulted in a number of important taxonomic changes: several polyphyletic genera have been split and more than 30 new Afrotropical genera have been established. In order to test their phylogenetic relevance and to clarify the suprageneric relationships, we reconstructed the first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the Afrotropical Baetidae. We sequenced a total of ca. 2300 bp from nuclear (18S) and mitochondrial (12S and 16S) gene regions from 65 species belonging to 26 genera. We used three different approaches of phylogeny reconstruction: direct optimization, maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood. The molecular reconstruction indicates the Afrotropical Baetidae require a global revision at a generic as well as suprageneric level. Only four of the 12 genera were monophyletic when represented by more than one species in the analysis. Historically, two conflicting concepts of the suprageneric classification of Afrotropical Baetidae were proposed. One was based on the gathering of sister genera into complexes and the other on the division of the family into a restricted number of subfamilies. According to our reconstruction, neither is completely satisfactory: the major complexes of genera present in Africa are either paraphyletic or polyphyletic and the division of the Afrotropical Baetidae into two subfamilies is probably too simplified.
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- Date Issued: 2008
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