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| Title: | Race, Class, Liberalism, and Segregation: The 1883 Native Strangers' Location Bill in Port Elizabeth, South Africa |
| Author: | Kirk, Joyce F. |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 293-321 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | segregation municipal government urban areas urban history Ethnic and Race Relations Urbanization and Migration Politics and Government History and Exploration |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/219792 |
| Abstract: | Most studies discuss the establishment of urban residential segregation in late 19th and early 20th-century towns in South Africa as if such policies were easily imposed. This article shows that at least in one South African town, Port Elizabeth, organized resistance from an emerging black middle class and liberal whites dampened official hopes of creating a strategy that would ultimately shape and control the material and social lives of black workers. It considers the economic, political and social issues that affected the ideologies and practices of both the blacks and whites which contributed to this struggle. In 1883 the Town Council of Port Elizabeth attempted to pass and implement the Native Strangers' Location Act, whose purpose was to force the black population to move from the 'native' Strangers' Location to the Reservoir site further away from town. But Africans understood that this removal would drastically alter their status specifically in regard to the prescriptive rights to land at Strangers'. Although the Act was passed, it was never used to remove and segregate the black population, because of the concerted resistance by black and white Cape liberals, which led to the attachment of two amendments which effectively crippled the legislation. Notes, ref. |
