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Title: | Settler-Estate Production, Monopoly Control, and Imperial Response: The Case of the Swaziland Corp. Ltd |
Author: | Crush, Jonathan S. |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | African Economic History |
Volume: | 8 |
Period: | Fall |
Pages: | 183-197 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Swaziland - Eswatini |
Subjects: | trading companies land reform Ethnic and Race Relations Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3601564 |
Abstract: | The Swaziland land partition of 1907 was instituted by the colonial state and close collusion between settlers, metropolitan capital and the colonial state was evident at most points in its planning and implimentation. However, a conflict inevitable arose on who was to control the forces of production. The issue, in the end, was reduced Co a straight confrontation between one British based company, the Swaziland Corporation Ltd., which claimed extensive holdings in the country, and the colonial state. The present paper examines the interaction between the Corporation and the colonial state in 1903-1910. The colonial state's exercise of autonomy in curtailing the Corporation's attempts to gain monopoly control over Swaziland's land and labour connot be interpreted in terms of any desire to 'protect' Swazi interests but should rather be attributed to a conflict as to the best means of ensuring the reproduction of capitalist forms of production in Swaziland. Map, notes, tab. |