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| Title: | State assistance to white freehold farmers in the Tuli Block and underdevelopment in adjacent areas, 1930-1966 |
| Author: | Morapedi, W.G. |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Periodical: | Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies (ISSN 0256-2316) |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 5-22 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Botswana South Africa Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | centre and periphery agricultural policy colonists farmers colonial period History, Archaeology Agricultural credit--Botswana--History |
| Abstract: | Colonial State assistance to white settler farmers in the Tuli Block freehold farming area of Botswana promoted development and prosperity in the freehold farms, while simultaneously deepening underdevelopment in the peripheral black areas. The paper largely focuses on credit and other forms of assistance offered to farmers in the crop production sector. State assistance helped freehold farmers to establish themselves and accumulate cattle acquired from Africans in the peripheral areas. It was the depletion of these cattle, which constituted the mainstay of the economy of Africans, that resulted in the development of freehold farms and the underdevelopment of peripheral areas. The paper explores the chain of exploitation and concludes that colonial Botswana was an appendage of the South African economy, which in turn served as the region's economic powerhouse. Within Botswana, the chain of exploitation began in the most remote areas, African reserves, from which white farmers siphoned off surplus and transmitted it to the farms en route to South Africa. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |
