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In March 1866, twelve members of the local mounted police force were reported absent from their duties at Olivier’s Hoek, just over the border of the Orange Free State and northwest of Bergville in today’s KwaZulu-Natal. The men later claimed they had left for Pietermaritzburg to ‘get paid,’ specifically to collect three months’ worth of overdue wages. After a brief inquiry, the colonial government dismissed all twelve men from the force due to their negligence of duty. Amongst these twelve was Corporal J. ‘Thomas’ Joyce, originally from England. Joyce and several of the dismissed policemen later sued the state for wrongful termination, largely as a means of striking back at the colonial government they believed had done them wrong. Though Joyce would go on to have a successful career in the Pietermaritzburg corporate police, the 1866 court case would break the Natal Mounted Police (NMP) in the 1860s.

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‘J. Joyce v. Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Natal’

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  • Jacob Ivey

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In March 1866, twelve members of the local mounted police force were reported absent from their duties at Olivier’s Hoek, just over the border of the Orange Free State and northwest of Bergville in today’s KwaZulu-Natal. The men later claimed they had left for Pietermaritzburg to ‘get paid,’ specifically to collect three months’ worth of overdue wages. After a brief inquiry, the colonial government dismissed all twelve men from the force due to their negligence of duty. Amongst these twelve was Corporal J. ‘Thomas’ Joyce, originally from England. Joyce and several of the dismissed policemen later sued the state for wrongful termination, largely as a means of striking back at the colonial government they believed had done them wrong. Though Joyce would go on to have a successful career in the Pietermaritzburg corporate police, the 1866 court case would break the Natal Mounted Police (NMP) in the 1860s.