General Overviews. The sources listed in this section offer general overviews of the impact of colonialism on African women. Berger 2003 is a concise summary, while articles in Allman, et al. 2002 and Hodgson and McCurdy 2001 provide a range of research on the colonial era. Sheldon 2017 includes several chapters on the …
Rhodesia and across the Limpopo River into South Africa using such modes of transport as foot, road or rail. Such transient illegals supplemented the efforts of the WNLA, commonly known as Wenela among African labour migrants, and immensely sustained the South African mining and agricultural colonial enterprises.
Following the Spanish conquest, the discovery of unprecedented deposits of silver ore enriched Spain and fueled the development of global capitalism. New World silver served as the medium of exchange for northern European manufactured goods, Chinese tea, African slaves, and other commodities and services. Centuries later, the mining of …
The Rhodesian Front won a clean sweep in elections in the following year. It was clear that the negotiating positions of Britain and of the Rhodesian settlers were polarising and seemed to be irreconcilable. Therefore, on remembrance day, 1965, the white administration in Rhodesia declared its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI).
Geological science in the colonial period was advantageously placed at the intersection of commercial and governmental interests, particularly in a territory like Northern Rhodesia where mining was at the heart of the ambitions of the colonial state (Stafford, 1990, Zeller, 2000). 3 The exploratory nature of geological science performed ...
in colonial situations.' Within the broad context of imperialism they have set ... Rhodesian mining industry during the early years of its development. ... and 1911, the industry …
When the country attained its independence from the colonial Rhodesian regime in 1980, the day marked an end to racial segregation, social injustice and a discriminatory legal system that promoted white supremacy. ... Adv Mkushi said during the Rhodesian era, the laws were crafted in such a way that it was difficult for a black …
Zambia - Colonial Rule, Independence, Economy: At first the BSAC administered its territory north of the Zambezi in two parts, North-Eastern and North-Western Rhodesia. In 1911 these were united to form Northern Rhodesia, with its capital at Livingstone, near Victoria Falls. Among a population of perhaps one million, there were about 1,500 white …
This article explores the relationship between science and the extension of colonial power through an examination of the rise of the Northern Rhodesian (later, Zambian) Copperbelt in the 1930s.
When the country attained its independence from the colonial Rhodesian regime in 1980, the day marked an end to racial segregation, social injustice and a discriminatory legal system that promoted ...
A recurring complaint, heard throughout the colonial period, was that an unacceptably high proportion of the territory's mineral wealth had been extracted, depriving Northern Rhodesia of precious funds with which it …
Southern Rhodesia from 1895 when the Mines and Minerals Act was promulgated to promote the growth of the country's mining industry. The study ends in 1961 when an amendment to ... the colonial era, even as the post-colonial government has ostensibly tried to redress the
The early colonial period in many cases opened new opportunities for some women, but many enterprises contracted in the face of the interwar economic depression and the Second World War . ... Women in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mining Communities, 1926–1964," in Women and Class in Africa, ed. Claire Robertson and Iris …
Southern Rhodesia from 1895 when the Mines and Minerals Act was promulgated to promote the growth of the country's mining industry. The study ends in 1961 when an …
Rhodesia had belatedly emerged in the Company's Rhodesian policy. In a speech to shareholders, Jameson described the recent change of policy during the previous two years, a period in which, he pointed out, the number of white settlers in Northern Rhodesian had almost doubled from 1,500 to 2,500:
These concerns were to influence educational policy in the country during the colonial period (189o-1980). The origins of white settlement can be traced to 1888 when foreign mining in- terests, based in South Africa …
Southern Africa - Southern Africa, 1899–1945: If the Nama-Herero wars were among the most savage in colonial Africa, an equally bitter, costly colonial war was fought by Britain against the Afrikaner South African Republic. The reasons for the South African (or Anglo-Boer) War (1899–1902) remain controversial: some historians portray it in personal …
Abstract. While copper has been produced in what became Northern Rhodesia for at least a millennium, the origins of modern mining in the territory date from the turn of the …
mining occurred, and visitors described the area as a "flat, barely undulat ing land, covered with mile upon square mile of thin but tall forest, which for the most of the time obscures a traveller's view and tends to give an impression of ever-expanding monotony."2 By the …
Using this framework, we examine African tobacco producers in Southern Rhodesia chronologically across three distinct periods: a precolonial to early colonial period of independent production and …
3 For the modern law, see C. M. Ushewokunze, "The Legal Framework of Copper production in Zambia," (1974) 6 Zambia L.J. 75. The provisions of the 1958 ordinance are examined in detail in Williams, H. M., The Mining Law of Northern Rhodesia, London, 1963. Google Scholar This article is based on research in the Public Records …
ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: Zimbabwe 1894-1969: Mining in Rhodesia. From the start, Zimbabwe was colonized because settlers wanted to find the Second Rand. The terms of the Rudd Concession emphasized more on mining. Whites involved in the occupation of Zimbabwe were each promised a 15 gold claims and there was need to …
Between 1918 and 1921 in Southern Rhodesia there were numerous strikes by African workers throughout the colony, in railways, mines, municipalities, and even amongst domestic workers, despite the ...
Introduction. From the collapse of the first concerted African armed resistance to British colonialism in 1896–7 until the creation of the political and economic bloc known as the Central African Federation or the Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland in 1953, Southern Rhodesia went through tremendous economic and political changes that ...
The system existed until the colonial period, when it was changed to suit the demands of the settlers. When the BSAC arrived in 1890, it built on the existing structures, forcing the kings to collect taxes for the Company. ... " The Reconstruction of the Southern Rhodesian Gold Mining Industry, 1903–10." Economic History Review 29, no. …
Introduction. In 1926 Northern Rhodesia 1 stood on the cusp of what the government described as "one of the greatest mineral developments ever experienced." …
African History, 15, 1974, pp. 275-289, and his 'The role of collaborators in Rhodesian Mining In-dustry, 1900-1935', African Affairs, 72, 1973, pp. 401-418; Ian Phimister, 'The Shamva Mine ... during the Colonial Period: the role of the British South Africa Company in Northern Rhodesia, 1890-1964', African Affairs, 70, 1971, pp. 365-384 …
In this earlier period, dozens of mining and other commercial enterprises failed, but in their ruins the seeds of commercial success were sown. ... Interventions in socio-ecological relations were a focus of British colonial rule in Northern Rhodesia and created the political and economic 'infrastructure' which enabled mining to take off ...
This is a study of the evolving relationship between the British colonial state and the copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia, from the early stages of development to decolonization, encompassing depression, wartime mobilization and fundamental changes in the nature and context of colonial rule.
rhodesian mining industry i900-193g jstor in colonial situations.' Within the broad context of imperialism they have set Rhodesian mining industry during the early years of its development. and 1911, the industry experienced a painful period of reconstruction which necessitated, amongst other things,
Onselen's two articles, "The Role of Collaborators in the Rhodesian Mining Industry 1900–1935", African Affairs, 72 (1973), pp. 401–418, and "Black Workers in Central African ... of central and southern Africa's mining industry during the colonial era, it arguesthat thecolliery'scontestedpasts aremostusefully interpretedinthe
Geological science in the colonial period was advantageously placed at the intersection of commercial and governmental interests, particularly in a territory like …
African families in the first thirty years of colonial rule in Southern Rhodesia. First, in many parts of the new colony, an African peasantry 1982), 338-57, esp. 342. Women in central and eastern Africa also sought greater mo-bility in the early colonial years (see Martha Hay and Marcia Wright, eds., African
Because the hoped-for mining potential of the region had failed to materialise, agriculture became the country's dominant enterprise and principal export earner. ... identity and the culture of modernity of the "immigrants" from Rhodesdale. 51 In colonial Rhodesia, ... It argues that the compulsory colonial-era evictions from LONRHO's ...
IN THE COLONIAL ECONOMY OF ZIMBABWE, 1903-1930: A LOPSIDED STRUGGLE BETWEEN LABOUR AND CAPITAL1 E.P. Makambe Accepted January 17, 1994 Abstract Up to 1903, the mining industry in colonial Zimbabwe had operated on the basis of primitive accumulation whereby extra economic coercion was a major factor in …
Abstract. While copper has been produced in what became Northern Rhodesia for at least a millennium, the origins of modern mining in the territory date from the turn of the twentieth century. Until the 1920s, development was fitful and speculative. Prospects were initially unpromising, especially when compared with those of neighbouring Katanga ...
Capitalism indeed penetrated Africa during the colonial period, but this is hardly to be confused with the triumph of 'free markets'. Many have argued, of course, that ... During the same years, however, copper mining began on the Northern Rhodesian side of the border with Katanga, in the region known ever since as the Copperbelt. ...