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| Title: | Putting a plough to the ground: a history of tenant production on the Vereeniging Estates 1896-1920 |
| Author: | Trapido, S. |
| Book title: | The societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 13 |
| Year: | 1984 |
| Pages: | 59-81 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | farmers tenancy large farms |
| Abstract: | In the introduction the author describes the way in which the agricultural heartland of South Africa was transformed by the forces of an allpervasive capitalism. With the rapid emergence of Johannesburg, a sizeable and demanding new market for foodstuff was created. The landowners encouraged agriculturalists to settle in the region as share-croppers or labour tenants. The main part of this paper is a history of three families who settled on the Vereeniging Estates at the end of the 19th century. Notes, tab. |