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15 January 1854 to iron out strategies. The meeting with Mpande was
postponed.'SI On 15 March 1854 the Volksraad at Potchefstroom
instructed C.F. Potgieter and HT Btihnnann to compile terms of
reference for a commission to negotiate land with Mpande. 28 ' The
Commission consisting of Commandant-General W.F. Joubert, M.W.
Pretorius, AT. Spies, J.H. Grobler with Field Comet J. Middel as
secretary, was given the following instructions:
• to enquue from Mpande whether he still
accepted his earlier agreement with the
Volksraad ofPietermaritzburg.
• To find out whether Mpande would agree to,
either through voluntary ceding or sale,
surrender land to the Transvaal Republic.
• To pulse Mpande regarding the ceding of St.
Lucia Bay, a piece of land that would stretch
from the Bay to the border of the Republic, and
establish how far Mpande was willing to
safeguard the area for the Republic.
28' J.D. Huyser. Die aturelle-Politiek van die Suid-Afiikaanse Republiek. (Unpublished
PhD Thesis, Pretoria., 1936), p. 96.
D.W. Kruger. Die Weg na die See. er. Archive Yearbook for South African History,
Vol.l, 1935,p. 154.