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Land, Chiefs, Mining: South Africa's North West Province Since 1840
By Andrew Manson and Bernard K. Mbenga
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At the heart of this compelling account of the Setswana-speaking people of North West Province lie three defining and interlinked issues: ethnicity, the ownership of land, and the impact of mineral wealth. Land, Chiefs, Mining traces the ways in which, over 300 years, the land has determined the relationships between the people who live on it, and how, in the 21st century, mining activity has added another layer to the complex of chiefly influence and commercial interests. This book sheds light on some of the defining issues, moments, and individuals in this lesser-known region of South Africa: an important Tswana kgosi (chief), Moiloa II of the baHurutshe; the South African War and its aftermath; land acquisition; economic and political conditions in the nature reserves; resistance to Mangope's Bophuthatswana; the impact of game parks and the Sun City resort; rural resistance and the liberation struggle; and African reaction to the platinum mining revolution. Written in a direct and accessible style, the book not only provides the general reader with an understanding of the region, but also opens up avenues for further research.
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Andrew Manson is Research Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, North-West University
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A readable, usefully referenced, history of the North West than provides a very useful background to any article of books dealing with the squabbles, splits and internecine strife that characterise communities in the region. This is a feature that extends back into the mists of time. The maps, however, are inadequate. They omit many significant places (Mochudi, Saulspoort...) and the text in Chapter four, in particular, is not understandable without a good map. There are also numerous spelling errors and many inconsistencies in the spelling of names. The book is said to have been 30 years in the making. Two days doing a proper proof read of the text and the maps could surely have been allowed for by the Wits University Press? (Even the scale in incorrect for Map 7). The price for a flawed paperback is unconscionable. But this is an indispensible work for understanding the tangled North West.