The alienation of Mgwali village from the Bholo police station has its roots in the frontier wars and vanquishment of the Xhosa. (Andrea Jurgen/ Flickr)
Under the shadow of colonial history in the Eastern Cape stands a colonial town named Stutterheim. It lies about 70km north of East London and its position on the N6 highway between East London and Queenstown makes it an unmistakable edifice of British imperialism — as the strip from East London to Queenstown was declared a white…