Crisis and catharsis in the development of capitalism in South African agriculture

In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 84, Heft 336, S. 371-398

Abstract

The article examines the relationship between state action on the one hand, and social reality on the other hand, in the transformation of the countryside in early industrial South Africa. The specific focus in this respect is on the 1913 Natives Land Act. The study also investigates the dynamics behind the development of a capitalist agriculture, particularly the cyclical, unsustained pattern evident in the drive for accumulation and control of productive resources by whites. (DÜI-Hns)