| Abstract: | In the early days of diamond digging, Africans lived on their employers' compound. The close supervision entailed in this arrangement changed as labourers sought a greater spatial independence in the townships or locations. In the late 1870s, the white bourgeoisie began to build in brick away from the work-place, and the compound took on a new content as an open barrack for African labourers. Closed compounds were introduced only with the developement of underground mining in 1885. This essay seeks to set out the struggles over the original implementation of the compound system within the process of capital accumulation, a process in which the interests of the mine-owners and labourers were never pre-defined. Fig., notes, tab. |
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