Ministering to the white man's needs: the development of urban segregation in South Africa 1913-1923

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Title:	Ministering to the white man's needs: the development of urban segregation in South Africa 1913-1923
Author:	Rich, P.B.
Year:	1978
Periodical:	African Studies
Volume:	37
Issue:	2
Pages:	177-191
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	segregation Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Urbanization and Migration
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/00020187808707518
Abstract:	In many ways the development of segregation has to be located in the urban areas of South Africa. The Stallard doctrine of excluding Africans from urban areas except insofar as they minister to the wants of the whites was a rational ideological response by certain groups within the white polity to what was perceived as an economic threat to their livelihood. The significance of Stallardism is that it shows that segregation cannot be solely located in the cheap labour basis of the reserves, thereby ignoring the desire by international capital for a stabilising petty bourgeois class among Africans in the urban areas. This explains the opposition by many liberal elements to the segregationist ideology of Stallardism, though not necessarily to the whole structure of segregation insofar as it susstained a cheap labour reservoir from the reserves. Notes, tab.