HIST 382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Zulu People, Hut Tax
6 Feb 2019
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Zulu people would walk or take trains to the transvaal (kimblerly) and use the money they earned to purchase stuff that would increase their stature. Most widely disseminated story was that he killed a man in his tribe and had to redistribute land to the minister. Story leads to him escaping to the zulu kingdom. Son goes to the mines and pays of his mother"s debt and this is how the conflict starts. Combination of colonial law and transvaal law is not unified. Talks about swiss migrants in the diamond mine. Reading was a symbol of modernization and was seen as an act that connected you with god. Missionaries don"t achieve the kind of intent that they want to. Most people only read the bibles in the mines. Thought reading would unlock great minds and create a civilization in africa. Passages in the bible supported religion that they already had and their beliefs which wasn"t the intention of the missionaries.
