Zusammenfassung der Ressource
South Africa: Spatial Patterns of Political
and Economic Development 1652 - 1948
- The Great Trek
- Victims of the Trek
- The Eastern Frontier
- The Migrant Labour System
- Discovery of diamonds at Kimberley
- 1871 - 50,000 people
- The Rand
- influx of whites - SA & UK; Boers felt
rural lifestyle was being threatened
- Railway
- Jameson Raid
- Cecil Rhodes aimed to overthrow Transvaal gov
- Anglo Boer War
- 1910 Act of Union
- liberal veiw - Thompson, 1971
- Marxist view - Atmore & Marx, 1974
- Agriculture After 1910 Union
- 1913 Native Land Act
- 'scheduled native areas' = 8.9 million hectares;
7.3% of SA; Africans 67% of pop confined to these
areas unless working for whites outside reserves
or on mines; prohibited purchase of land outside
reserves except in the Cape province
- 1916 Beaumont Commission
- recognition that land was insufficient >> recommendations of
- 1936 Native Trust & Land Act
- 'poor white' problem
- Industrialisation