Guy Stewart Moylan Hogan left for East London in S. Africa when he was 15 after leaving the orphanage.
The more I find out about Guy Hogan (senior) the more I am shocked by how much he has experienced so young in his life. Having left the orphanage he headed for South Africa to start a new life. He was probably not aware when he boarded the ship that he was heading for the Bhambatha or Poll Tax uprising of 1906. Most Zulu people were determined not to be conciliatory to the English-speaking community, feeling they had been cheated.
The Zulu desire to see the Boers defeated was primarily motivated by resentment at their cruel treatment at the hands of the Boers and by hopes for the return of their ancestral land under Boer occupation. Yet the amakhosi who fought on the British side in the Vryheid district were repaid by betrayal. Reconciliation between the Boers and British was speeded up, but for the Zulu people and their king, Dinuzulu, the oppressive status quo ante was reestablished. Ultimately, the Zulu people were in a worse position than before the outbreak of the war.
Final Zulu insurrection in South Africa failed, at a cost of more than 2,000 Zulu dead of a force numbering an estimated 12,000.
It was also in 1906 in South Africa that Gandhi decided to defy a humiliating law and soon became a leader in struggle rather than an adviser to the community.
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