 He gained a controlling stake in the Kingwilliamstown Gazette, the Uitenhage Times, the Queenstown Free Press, the Eastern Province Herald, the Eastern Province Monthly Magazine, the Friend of Bloemfontein, and Het Grahamstads Register en Boeren-vriend.With the time and resources of his business success, he able to concentrate on additional personal publications, such as ""Narrative of the Irruption of the Kafir Hordes (1836)"" and ""Notes on the Separation of the Eastern from the Western Province"", proposing a stronger colonial policy against the neighbouring Xhosa people and calling for more British immigration to the Eastern Cape to bolster its White population.Godlonton began to involve himself in politics soon after he arrived in the Cape.