HIAF 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Subsistence Agriculture, Indirect Rule, Group Areas Act
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Hiaf 111 lecture 8 colonial southern africa and the rise of the apartheid state. In rural families, this is important, since every member of the household participates in the labor: often social exchange, represents new relationship between families of bride and groom, extended family contribute, often a negotiation, urbanization. Laws put in place that made it difficult for women to work in cities, stay in cities: ex: needed to have a license to sell agricultural goods in cities, easier for men to get than women. In south africa, domestic laborers: selling food, homemade alcohol around the mines. Settler colonialism: people from colonizing country permanently settle in colony with consent of the government: not true for most colonies in africa, defines the history of south africa. If you do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e o(cid:374)e, you go to jail o for(cid:272)ed to sig(cid:374) a (cid:272)o(cid:374)tra(cid:272)t (cid:449)ith a(cid:374) employer (mine) Schools, hospitals, etc: group areas act: 1950; complete racial segregation, race separated neighborhoods in cities.
