HIST 382 Chapter reading: Reading Women of Phokeng Consciousness, Life Strategy and Migrancy in South Africa
6 Feb 2019
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During the 1920s and 1930s young women and men would leave home and seek employment in the cities. Both sexes wanted to leave chiefly and parental discipline and authority. Initiation schools for boys persisted for longer than girls and there were other forms of discipline that were more harshly applied. Rewards for accepting the system were greater for young men than for young women. South african black rural areas underwent a progressive decline during the early decades of this century. All over the country rural economies that had until then been able to sustain themselves began to give up a migrant proletariat to the cities. Regions that had at first sent migrants to work out of strength now did so out of weakness. White farmers backed by a series of laws made in their favour began to change the terms of the relationship between themselves and those who sharecropped on their lands.
