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| Title: | A 'Native' Free State at Korsten: Challenge to Segregation in Port Elizabeth, 1901-1905 |
| Author: | Kirk, Joyce F. |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 309-336 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | South Africa Great Britain |
| Subjects: | segregation colonialism Law, Human Rights and Violence History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637239 |
| Abstract: | Between 1901-1905, the Cape colonial government in South Africa attempted to force the majority of the African population out of the centre of Port Elizabeth and into New Brighton, which was the first State administered 'native township'. Africans from different ethnic and class backgrounds refused to cooperate, instead migrating to Korsten, a freehold 'village' situated two miles outside Port Elizabeth. Korsten was neither racially segregated nor created by government, which meant that living in Korsten had many advantages to Africans compared with living in New Brighton. By mid-1903, middle class Africans in Korsten wanted to fulfil their political, social, and economic ambitions through the establishment of a Village Management Board (VMB). The postwar parliamentary election in 1903 gave Africans an opportunity to use their votes to lobby for a VMB. A Korsten VMB was elected on 6 July 1904, but it was dissolved by the Prime Minister in December 1904. Since then, the government tried with all possible means, amongst others by applying the Health Act to Korsten, to evict Africans from Korsten and to settle them in New Brighton. Notes, ref., sum. |
