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Black Mountain : Land, Class & Power in the Eastern Orange Free State / Colin Murray.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International African Library : IALPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748603442
  • 9781474471213
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PHOTOGRAPHS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON CONVENTIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION A STUDY OF ONE DISTRICT -- 1 'DUST AND ASHES': THE COLLAPSE OF AN AFRICAN POLITY -- 2 IMPERIAL INTERVENTION: THE LAND SETTLERS -- 3 VARIETIES OF DISPOSSESSION -- 4 STRUGGLES OVER LAND -- 5 THE MAKING OF A BANTUSTAN -- 6 RURAL SLUM: BOTSHABELO -- 7 TWO FARMS: ONE HUNDRED YEARS -- CONCLUSION: WHOSE LAND? -- APPENDIX: A LANDOWNER, THREE LAWYERS AND A LIBERAL -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- SELECTED SOURCES -- INDEX
Summary: This is a remarkable chronicle of the struggles of many people - black and white - whose lives have been rooted in one district of the South African highveld over the last hundred years. Thaba Nchu (Black Mountain) was the territory of an independent African chiefdom until it was annexed by the Orange Free State republic in 1884. By 1977, one-third had emerged as part of 'independent' Bophutswana with consequent 'inter-ethnic' antagonisms. As a result, on an adjoining piece of bare veld, there had developed the largest slum in South Africa, Botshabelo - a massive concentration of poverty and unemployment. The stories told by the inhabitants of the slum in 1980 led to this book. Detailed archival evidence and contemporary oral history illuminate all the important themes of the political economy of the rural highveld of South Africa from the mineral revolution of the late nineteenth century to the erosion of apartheid in the late twentieth century.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PHOTOGRAPHS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON CONVENTIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION A STUDY OF ONE DISTRICT -- 1 'DUST AND ASHES': THE COLLAPSE OF AN AFRICAN POLITY -- 2 IMPERIAL INTERVENTION: THE LAND SETTLERS -- 3 VARIETIES OF DISPOSSESSION -- 4 STRUGGLES OVER LAND -- 5 THE MAKING OF A BANTUSTAN -- 6 RURAL SLUM: BOTSHABELO -- 7 TWO FARMS: ONE HUNDRED YEARS -- CONCLUSION: WHOSE LAND? -- APPENDIX: A LANDOWNER, THREE LAWYERS AND A LIBERAL -- NOTES AND REFERENCES -- SELECTED SOURCES -- INDEX

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This is a remarkable chronicle of the struggles of many people - black and white - whose lives have been rooted in one district of the South African highveld over the last hundred years. Thaba Nchu (Black Mountain) was the territory of an independent African chiefdom until it was annexed by the Orange Free State republic in 1884. By 1977, one-third had emerged as part of 'independent' Bophutswana with consequent 'inter-ethnic' antagonisms. As a result, on an adjoining piece of bare veld, there had developed the largest slum in South Africa, Botshabelo - a massive concentration of poverty and unemployment. The stories told by the inhabitants of the slum in 1980 led to this book. Detailed archival evidence and contemporary oral history illuminate all the important themes of the political economy of the rural highveld of South Africa from the mineral revolution of the late nineteenth century to the erosion of apartheid in the late twentieth century.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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