HIST 460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Portuguese Mozambique, Informal Sector, Lillian Ngoyi
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Gender and resistance to white rule in south africa. Canada: ruled by white male settlers: afrikaners and british, africans suffered under white settler rule. In 1913, african natives the majority population could only own 7% of the arable land in south africa. Johannesburg, where huge gold deposits were discovered in the mid-1880s. Johnannesburg, mostly by low-paid black men: to recruit cheap african labor, mine owners worked with colonial officials in south africa and through [blackboard] Taxes and migrant labor: onerous taxes were imposed on african men, from british southern africa to portuguese. In the 1920s, officials assumed that few african women would ever want to live in the city there were so few places that they could legally live, and most jobs were reserved for men. Jewish: so by the end of wwii, african women were becoming politically visible to officials, in multiple troubling ways. Apartheid and the introduction of national pass laws for women.
