 These groups were also forced to pay taxes such as the hut tax, to work on white farms, and as migrant mine workers for the Kimberley mine.In addition the Rinderpest regulations and the shooting of cattle owned by Africans in the Taung Reserves were undertaken.After Jantjie's cattle were shot, he demanded of the policeman in charge, Corporal Denyssen, to know why his cattle were shot.