Cape Frontier Wars also called Kaffir wars or Kafir wars (1779-1879) was 100 years of intermittent warfare and nine different wars between the Cape colonists and the Xhosa agricultural and pastoral peoples of the Eastern Cape, in South Africa. One of the most prolonged struggles by African peoples against European intrusion, it ended in the annexation of Xhosa territories by the Cape Colony and the incorporation of its peoples.

• 1st Cape Frontier War, 1779
• 2nd Cape Frontier War, 1793
• 3rd Cape Frontier War, 1799-1801
• 4th Cape Frontier War, 1811
• 5th Cape Frontier War, 1818-19
• 6th Cape Frontier War, 1834-36
• 7th Cape Frontier War, 1846
• 8th Cape Frontier War, 1851-53
• 9th Cape Frontier War, 1877-78