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Title: | African Divisional Politics in the Cape Colony, 1884-1910 |
Author: | Trapido, Stanley |
Year: | 1968 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 79-98 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | The Cape South Africa |
Subjects: | right to vote Politics and Government History and Exploration colonialism Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/179921 |
Abstract: | In many electoral divisions of the Cape Colony between 1884 and 1910 African voters played an important part. The influence of headmen declined in that period. Ministers of religion, school-teachers and others of the new strata created by colonial society were given a leading role, but their influence was a limited one. To bring candidates to the notice of the politically conscious and to implement decisions once these were taken, ad hoc African electoral committees were formed. White candidates established committees of their own which sometimes overlapped the African committees. African electoral agents employed by candidates played an important part in running a campaign. The network created by these African committees provided the basis for territory-wide organizations. Notes. |