Black Mountain: land, class and power in the Eastern Orange Free State, 1880s to 1980s

Abstract

Part 1 Dust and Ashes - collapse of an African polity: twilight of self-rule trials of no ordinary kind - civil war and annexation 1880-1884 dispositions aftermath - relocation, alienation, speculation. Part 2 Imperial intervention - settlers: scorched earth reconstruction of countryside experiences of settlement - early years bones of contention towards consolidation. Part 3 Varieties of dispossession: bitter winter - share-croppers dismal exodus - Samuelites horns of a dilemma - landowners one estate dismembered - Setlogelo saga district in depression - a cross examination. Part 4 Struggles over land: segregation - swapping vote for land? fixing released areas selling out - landowners and trust crying for land - barolong progressive association. Part 5 The making of a Bantustan: trust regime - for betterment or worse? the obstinate bunch - unrest at Seliba cream of Barolong - an interlocked elite epilogue - meaning of National Development. Part 6 Rural slum - Botshabelo: displaced urbanisation squeeze out of South Africa - case study A - Ha Rantsatsa Kromdraai - railway squatters case study B - 'MaYB' versus one widow seventh hell - struggles over daily life case study C - bureaucratic nightmare case study D - working a passage case study E - one household through time what sort of integration?. Part 7 Two farms - one hundred years: Thaba Phatshwa - African farm from black spots to coloured reserve Ngoananyana - potato kingdom ruinings - white and case study F - life in D section. Conclusion - whose land?. Appendix - a landowner, three lawyers and a liberal.