| Abstract: | Between 1868 and 1871, the formal independence of the kingdom was brought to an end. From 1881 to 1884, the country rose in a protracted war against the Cape colonial government and then went through a bitter civil war. At the conclusion of this period, it was removed from the political control of the Cape and placed under direct protection of the British government. During the same years, thousands of adult male Basotho began to move annually onto the colonial labour markets to exchange their labour-power as a commodity. In this paper the structural conditions prevailing in both the settler social formations and the Sotho social formation itself are examined in order to recognise and explain this movement of labour. Notes. |
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