Martin Legassick Author

Martin Legassick (1940 - 2016) was Emeritus Professor of History at the University of the Western Cape. A historian, activist and author, his publications include The struggle for the Eastern Cape, 1800-1854: subjugation and the roots of South African democracy (2011) and The politics of a South African frontier: the Griqua, the Sotho-Tswana and the missionaries, 1780-1840 (2010).