Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939 - F. D. Tothill
Even now, almost
half a century after it collapsed, any conclusions about the working
of Fusion and its chances of long-term success
if the Second World War had not cut short its life must necessarily
be
tentative. Nevertheless, it is difficult to disagree with the
contemporary National Party supporters who saw it as a "deurmekaarspul
van allerlei uiteenlopende elemente" which, "in
uiterlike vorm eenheid probeer wys, maar wat innerlik vinnig
aan [die] gis is".
It was "kunsmatig" ... Read more
The taxation
of Africans: Transvaal 1902-1907* - David
Burton
The importance of taxation in the study of history has long been
recognized and in such topics as the constitutional crisis in Seventeenth
Century England, the American struggle for independence, and the
outbreak of revolution in France in 1789, the subject has received
considerable treatment and prominence. However, taxation remains
a rather neglected aspect of South African history 1 despite the importance
attached to the taxation of Africans by John Hobson in his Imperialism: a study;2 the warnings, criticisms and allegations of its abuse by
the London-based Aborigines' Protection Society; as well as the criticisms
voiced in South Africa by the South African Native Congress (Cape)
and the Transvaal Native Congress ... Read more
The Chinese in South
Africa: a preliminary overview to 1910 - Karen L Harris
To date, no comprehensive history of the Chinese community in
South Africa has been written, and even in the more recent
historiographical
publications the subject has been entirely ignored.1 There are
numerous reasons for this, one of which is obviously the
numerically small
size of the community as well as the scattered nature and paucity
of research material. The South African Chinese community is, and
has almost always been, one of the country's smallest minorities.
Since the first official census in the Cape of Good Hope in 1865,
the Chinese have only ever been listed as a separate 'ethnic group'
once ... Read more
John Nauright: Alexandra Township removal debate - John Nauright
In the 1930s in South Africa, municipalities, provincial and national
levels of government increasingly turned their attention to the
problem of African urbanisation which to that point had not been
tightly
controlled. Slum clearance legislation was passed enabling municipalities
to set about clearing slum areas and relocating urban Africans
in townships, often well away from white settlement. In Johannesburg
officials were additionally concerned with several freehold townships
situated to the west and north of the city, where Africans had
the
legal right to own property ... Read more
Glenelg and the dispatch of 1835 - Randolph Vigne
It is nearly 60 years since W M Macmillan's Bantu, Boer and Briton
(1929) examined the frontier settlement of 1835 ordained by the Governor
of the Cape, Sir Benjamin D'Urban, and the British Colonial Secretary,
Lord Glenelg's, reversal of it. Nearly 50 years have passed too since
the Huisgenoot's unequivocal headline 'Die man wat die Groot Trek
veroorsaak het' typified the 'guilty' verdict on Glenelg for causing
the Great Trek. The 11 years that had followed Macmillan's exculpation
of Glenelg had done nothing to convert the public to his view. Perhaps
it is a view still ignored ... Read more
