Sugar and Settlers
Sugar and Settlers

Author: Duncan L. Du Bois

Publisher: UJ Press

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1920382712

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Duncan Du Bois provides a detailed and fascinating history of a hitherto much-neglected part of what was the colony of Natal. Based primarily on original archival research, he traces the southward advance of the white settler frontier and its sugar-based economy from Isipingo to the Mzimkulu river and, without the sugar engine, to the Mtamvuna.

Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890
Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890

Author: Robert Vicat Turrell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-09-17

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780521333542

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Based on new documentary sources, this history of diamond mining in Kimberley is a major study of South Africa's mineral revolution and the formation of De Beers Consolidated Mines, one of the most successful African mining companies.

The Impossible Machine
The Impossible Machine

Author: Adam Sitze

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2013-07-30

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0472118757

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A fresh, though counterintuitive, understanding of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s legal, political, and cultural heritage