The documents gathered and prepared by Fiscal Dennis Denyssen are preserved in the government archives in Cape Town, along with notes from questioning the prisoners and witnesses during a two-week trial in Cape Town. Most of these documents were created in Dutch; the trial was also in Dutch.

A clerk created a summary of the legal record—which included the interrogation of the rebels—and translated the materials into English. This document was sent to London to inform British officials about the events and the local government's response to this serious challenge to colonial order.  The summary was published in 1904.