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Mounted Griquas. (6 riders and 6 horses). [Suitable also as Newlanders, Bergenaars, Korana, Basotho, agterryers ('after riders') in a boer commando, Mfengu drovers; also suited to the Cape Frontier Wars in the role of 'Hottentot' levies and, in the 8th CFW particularly, Kat River rebels].
In this set we've assembled a set of figures intended to represent the Griquas and other C19th Southern African multi-racial clans, such as the Bergenaars, Newlanders and Korana, all of which emigrated north from Cape Colony through the 1820s and 1830s, albeit they had been preceded by vanguard parties considerably earlier than that. Before Mzilikazi and the amaNdebele (Matabele) were driven north of the Limpopo (i.e. into modern-day Zimbabwe), by boer commandos proceeding along the northern axis of the Great Trek into the region that later became known as the Transvaal, (i.e. across the Vaal River as it were), they had not infrequently been accosted by large commandos of Korana and others, who raided into Ndebele territory mainly to seize livestock.
These several clans all fought from horseback, somewhat after the fashion of the 'pony and musket' tactics of the boere, or at least they preferred to do so when there were sufficient animals available to go round. All of the clans at issue tended to co-opt men of Sotho-Tswana stock into their commandos/raiding parties. This is a supremely flexible set of figures, in that there is no good reason why each figure, individually, could not also be used to portray a Basotho warrior, although certainly you need to jump one way or the other in painting them to be historically authentic, since skin pigmentation amongst Sotho-Tswana peoples would obviously tend to be darker in the average generality than was the case within the multi-racial clans, who were variously of mixed Khoekhoe, European and even Malay extraction, the last due to the long-running slaving activities of the Dutch East India Company (or VOC) in the Far East.
The flexibility of the figures does not end there. They could also be used to represent the African and Khoekhoe agterryers ('after riders') who provided an important element of most boer commandos, (notwithstanding their contribution, even their very presence, was often downplayed or erased in propagandized versions of Afrikaaner history). Equally these figures could be used as mounted Mfengu, (or 'Fingoes'), who fought as allies of the British in the Cape Frontier Wars; or as so-called 'Hottentot' auxiliaries levied to serve under British arms on the Eastern frontier. In the 8th CFW of 1850-3 a not insignificant proportion of the multi-racial population of Albany, in the Eastern Cape, rebelled against the British and fought alongside the amaNgqika Xhosa.