The Triumph of Colonel Stallard: The Transformation of the Natives (Urban Areas) Act between 1923 and 1937

Davenport, T. R. H.

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“…Between 1930 and1971, the act was modified at least nine times. Each modification was designed not only to ensure greater restrictions on the movement of blacks, but also to establish urban institutions that would enforce racially separate residential areas and local authorities (Bloch & Wilkinson, 1982;Davenport, 1969Davenport, , 1970Davenport, , 1971Shubane, 1991). Chiefly, the Urban Areas Acts prevented Africans from owning property in urban areas; it established separate residential areas for natives and designed a local government system along racial lines.…”

Section: Nineteen Twenty-threementioning

confidence: 99%

Lost dreams? Tales of the South African city twenty years after apartheid

Kihato

2014

African Identities

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Section: Nineteen Twenty-threementioning

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Lost dreams? Tales of the South African city twenty years after apartheid

Kihato

2014

African Identities

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“…In contrast to India, South Africa was a colony of white settlement. South African governments always saw the cities as likely sites for the subversion of white supremacy, either through racial mixing in slums or so-called black 'detribalization' (Jochelson, 2001: 21-66, 98-166).A near constant theme in South African urban governance was the desire to regulate movement to the towns through influx and efflux controls, and to assign a large section of the African workforce the status of migrants (Davenport, 1970(Davenport, , 1971. It was the absence of any similar kind of endeavour in India that allowed for large surpluses of urban labour and the proliferation of urban slums, which in turn provided the material and social underpinnings of migrant labour.…”

Section: Labour Migrancy In India: Some Dynamicsmentioning

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Labour, Migrancy and Urbanization in South Africa and India, 1900—60

Bonner

2009

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This article compares labour migrancy and urbanization in several of the leading cities of South Africa and India. It begins by noting the pervasiveness of single male oscillating labour migration between rural areas and city employment in both societies up until the 1950s, despite fundamentally different institutional and political arrangement in each state. It highlights and explores the issues of social structure and culture in both societies, both pre-colonial and colonial, in explaining the dynamics of migrancy and urbanization, including which sections of village society migrated and with what effects. The article explores different modes of living in and adapting to urban environments, and particularly the different social trajectory of women and youth in both societies and the implications of each for social stability. It finally asks why historians and other social scientists have adopted such distinctive approaches to each society.

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“…In Johannesburg, the Natives (Urban Areas) Act, which provided for the enforced removal of Africans beyond proclaimed city limits (Davenport, 1970), was adopted quickly by the city officials as the motor of their post-World War I urban-segregation drive. Despite numerous legal hiccups in the implementation of the legislation (Koch, 1983), thousands had been removed from the city's slums by the late 1920s.…”

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Public Housing as a Device for White Residential Segregation in Johannesburg, 1934–1953

Parnell

1988

Urban Geography

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Public housing for whites in South Africa was introduced as an urban-segregation measure in the 1930s. The state's aim in establishing Council housing in Johannesburg is shown to have been the racial division of the residences of working-class people. The white-housing program is assessed and shown to be wanting. It is argued that, particularly in the post-World War II years, housing assistance for whites failed to ensure the racial segregation of the slum or to accomplish the social uplifting of all poor whites. Stringent selection procedures, fiscal shortages, and the shelter demands of the black working class contributed to the persistence of racially integrated suburbs despite state efforts to protect whites through Council housing supply.

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The Triumph of Colonel Stallard: The Transformation of the Natives (Urban Areas) Act between 1923 and 1937

Cited by 36 publications

References 3 publications

Lost dreams? Tales of the South African city twenty years after apartheid

Lost dreams? Tales of the South African city twenty years after apartheid

Labour, Migrancy and Urbanization in South Africa and India, 1900—60

Public Housing as a Device for White Residential Segregation in Johannesburg, 1934–1953

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