The Zulu Royal Family and the Ideology of Segregation

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Title:	The Zulu Royal Family and the Ideology of Segregation
Author:	Marks, Shula
Year:	1978
Periodical:	Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:	4
Issue:	2
Period:	April
Pages:	172-194
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Natal South Africa
Subjects:	segregation Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636356
Abstract:	Of all the colonies of South Africa, Natal's policies in the 19th century were closest to 20th century notions of segregation. It was in Natal more than in any other of the territories of S.A. that in the 19th century colonists were forced in the first instance to come to terms with the strenghth of the pre-capitalist mode of production and utilize it for their own purposes of surplus extraction and control. It was Sir Alfred Milner, High Commisioner and Governor of the Cape Colony, who realized the utility of Natal forms for his own 'modernising' policies: the constraints on using force to expropriate Africans in order to provide the necessary labour supply for gold mines or the land for white farmers were to be features of his reconstruction administration. Through an examination of the relationship of the Natal government to the Zulu royal family, the author shows how the absorption of elements, other than the dominant ones, took place. Notes.