Kaffraria

Kaffraria, Kaffiria, or Kaffirland, was the descriptive name given to the southeast part of what is today the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Kaffraria, i.e., the land of the Kaffirs, is no longer an official designation[2] (with the term kaffir, originally the Arabic term for a non-believer in Islam, now considered an offensive racial slur in South Africa).

[2] The remaining Xhosa territory beyond the Kei River, south of the Drakensberg Mountains and as far as the Natal frontier, remained independent for longer and was known as Kaffraria proper.

[2] As a geographical term, it was later used to indicate the Transkeian territories of the Cape provinces comprising the four administrative divisions of Transkei, Pondoland, Tembuland, and Griqualand East, incorporated into Cape Colony at various periods between 1879 and 1894.

They had a total area of 18,310 km2 and a population (1904) of 834,644, of whom 16,777 were designated white by the colonial government.