Ghanzi In History (Part 7) - Indigenous Resistance
Monday, August 13, 2018
As the frustrated Resident Commissioner Charles Rey noted: “They can’t see that if they don’t start new industries they will starve, as there is no market for their cattle and the government can’t go on feeding them. As it is we are feeding 90% of the Ghanzi [European] population.”
Notwithstanding their own impoverishment the white farmers also looked to Mahikeng’s support to bring in more settlers, while helping them turn the Ghanzi Crownland’s local Khoe [Basarwa] as landless farm labourers.
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