HIST 382 Lecture 14: Lecture 14 - Resistance
25 Feb 2019
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By the 1910s south africa was being transformed economically. Apartheid policy was predicated in living on cities vs. towns. New urban spaces saw new forms of culture in mines and towns. Women were migrating to cities in large numbers during the 1910s. African towns were starting to become family spaces. There are multiple new resources for political resistance but also enormous difficulties in a context that was still divided by land ownership and different situations. Worker organizations were a crucial form of businesses. Cities would become new sites for ways of being and sites of resistance. The majority of africans still lived under chieftaincies in urban areas. The state is using their power to maintain control. Chiefs might be a focus of national ethnic sentiment. A new group that was increasingly politically important were indians in the transvaal and natal. English emerges as a language used by the politically elite because it is a common language for most people.
