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Wie der Autor anhand zweier Fallstudien über das ländliche Onverwacht/Botshabelo-Slum im Oranje-Freistaat und das Homeland KwaNdebele (Transvaal) belegt, haben die Paßgesetze, die 1986 formal aufgehoben wurden, zu einer raschen Urbanisierung abseits der Wirtschaftszentren geführt und so immense soziale und politische Konflikte heraufbeschworen. (DÜI-Spe)

This paper offers a parochial illustration of the complex and inter‐related processes of dispossession by which Africans were first deprived of their own lands; then deprived of independent productive opportunities on white‐owned land; and finally concentrated in grotesquely small, over‐crowded and impoverished reserves. On the one hand, the story of Thaba 'Nchu further illustrates a dominant theme of modern historiography: the dissolution of a relatively independent peasantry into an agricultural proletariat on white farms and a migrant wage labour force domiciled in the African reserves. On the other hand, by comparison with processes of dispossession elsewhere on the highveld in the late 19th century, the story of Thaba 'Nchu arguably represents a peculiar variation on the theme: for here political incorporation was accompanied by the formal constitution of a black land‐owning class. Alienation of land took place to some degree directly through conquest but more significantly through the conversion of 'traditional' administrative rights into freehold titles and the consequent vulnerability of these to successive incursions of speculative capital. Nevertheless, within the confines of political incorporation and direct subordination to the South African state, there has been a striking continuity of dominance by a local black elite. All the inhabitants of the district were incorporated within the political structures of 'separate development', which gave rise to vicious ethnic antagonisms in the 1970s with a massive influx of Basotho refugees in the 'land of the Barolong'.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF MAPS -- LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES AND GRAPHS -- NOTE ON PHOTOGRAPHS -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON NAMES, ORTHOGRAPHY AND PRONUNCIATION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I MEDICINE MURDER: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, POLITICAL CONTEXT AND CASE STUDIES -- 1 BASUTOLAND: 'A VERY PRICKLY HEDGEHOG' -- Case Study 1 THE CASE OF THE COBBLER'S HEAD: MORIJA, 1945 -- 2 MEDICINE MURDER: BELIEF AND INCIDENCE -- Case Study 2 'THE CHIEFS OF TODAY HAVE TURNED AGAINST THE PEOPLE': KOMA-KOMA, 1948 -- 3 MEDICINE MURDER: THE DEBATES OF THE LATE 1940s -- Case Study 3 THE 'BATTLE OF THE MEDICINE HORNS': 'MAMATHE'S, LATE 1940s -- 4 NARRATIVE AND COUNTER-NARRATIVE: EXPLAINING MEDICINE MURDER -- Case Study 4 'A MOST UNSAVOURY STATE OF AFFAIRS': MOKHOTLONG, 1940s-50s -- 5 DIAGNOSES AND RESOLUTIONS: FROM FAILURE TO RECRIMINATION TO SILENCE -- INTERLUDE MEDICINE MURDER AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION -- PART II MEDICINE MURDER: AN ANALYSIS OF PROCESS -- 6 MURDERERS AND THEIR MOTIVES -- 7 PLOTS, MURDERS, MUTILATIONS AND MEDICINE -- 8 POLICE INVESTIGATIONS -- 9 THE JUDICIAL PROCESS -- AFTERMATH -- CONCLUSION -- ADDENDUM: TOWARDSF~EWORKSOF COMPARISON -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- SOURCES -- INDEX

We will not sit back and watch as the wealth builds up in the cities, while on the edges of these cities, in the small towns and in the countryside, we continue to starve.