Inqaba yaseBeaufort

IFort Beaufort ( ngesiXhosa : iBhofolo), ebizwa ngokusemthethweni ngokuba yiKwaMaqoma kweyokwindlas 2023,yidolophu ekwiSithili saseAmatole kwiPhondo laseMpuma Koloni eMzantsi Afrika, kwaye yayinabemi abangama-25,668 ngo 2011.Le dolophu yasekwa ngo-1837 yaza yaba ngumasipala ngo-1883. Le dolophu ikwindawo edibana kuyo uMlambo iKat noMlambo iBrak phakathi kweKeiskamma kunye neGreat Fish Rivers .KwaMaqoma isebenza njengendawo yokulala encinci yabasebenzi bezemfundo nabafundi bedyunivesithi yaseFort Hare, ekwidolophu ekufutshane yaseAlice, kwaye ikufutshane neSulphur Springs.

Ikwayindawo yokuzalwa kwezopolitiko zaseMzantsi Afrika kunye nomlweli wocalucalulo ophinde abe yinkulumbuso yokuqala yaseMpuma Koloni uRaymond Mhlaba kunye nomfazi wakhe wokuqala u Joyce Meke.

Iingcambu zeFort Beaufort zikwisikhululo semitshini esasekwa nguMfundisi uJoseph Williams weLondon Missionary Society ngo-1816. Ngo-1822, uColonel Maurice Scott weRoyal Warwickshire Regiment wakha indlu yebhloko malunga neekhilomitha ezintathu ukusuka kwisikhululo semitshini njengendawo yomkhosi kunye nenqaba yokulwa nohlaselo lwamaXhosa phantsi kwenkosi yawo, uMaqoma . AmaNgesi athiya isakhiwo semfazwe ngokuba yiFort Beaufort ngembeko kaDuke waseBeaufort, uyise kaNkosi uCharles Henry Somerset —uRhuluneli weCape Colony (1814 ukuya ku-1826). Emva kweMfazwe yesi-6 yamaXhosa (1834–1835), uRhuluneli uSir Benjamin d'Urban wagunyazisa ukwakhiwa kwenqaba kwindawo yebhloko yokuqala. Izakhiwo ezintsha zaziquka isibhedlele somkhosi, izindlu zoonogada, ii-barracks zomkhosi, kunye neendawo zokuhlala zamagosa.