From the Adelade, South Australia Register for :
Trouble With Swazis.
Payment of Hut Tax Refused.
London,
The Standard learns that a body of South African constabulary, with two Maxims, has been dispatched to the border of Swaziland, owing to difficulties which have been experienced in collecting the native hut tax. It is hoped that the trouble will not prove serious. Correspondents report that Dinizulu, the famous Zulu chieftain, is advising the Zulus in the Transvaal to avoid the payment of the increased hut tax.
Actually, in , the government had been pleasantly surprised (according to some accounts, anyway) at how easy it had been to apply the hut tax and how compliant the victims had been. Not so much in the following years, though. Resistance to the tax grew , and the attempt to institute a second, poll tax in led to the Bambatha Rebellion.
