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Title: | Labour Supply and the Genesis of South African Confederation in the 1870's |
Author: | Etherington, Norman A. |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 235-253 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Natal |
Subjects: | employment confederations history 1870-1879 History and Exploration Labor and Employment Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181516 |
Abstract: | The scheme of Britain Colonial Secretary, Lord Carnarvon, for a South African Confederation in the 1870s owed much more than has been generally recognised to influences emanating from Natal, in particular Natal's need for a secure and regular flow of Migrant labour. Theophilus Shepstone, Natal Secretary for Native Affairs fully grasped the economic advantages of Confederation and clearly understood the connection between African administration, economic development and labour supply. Behind Shops tone stood a dedicated group of expansionists in Natal. As a result of three new factors which emerged in southern Africa in the late 1860s - mineral discoveries, the establishment of regular labour migration routes, and the extension of the campaign against the slave trade to central and east Africa - the perceptions of Shepstone and the expansive interests of Natal became, for a brief period, British imperial policy. Map, notes, sum. |