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Nonfiction · 1916

Native Life in South Africa

Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion

Sol. T. Plaatje

Reading time
about 9.5 h
Length
132,397 words · 465 pages
Structure
27 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Modern

Native Life in South Africa, first published in 1916, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Introductory
  2. (A) Who is the Author?
  3. (B) Prologue
  4. Chapter I — A Retrospect
  5. Chapter II — The Grim Struggle between Right and Wrong, and the Latter Carries the Day
  6. Chapter III — The Natives’ Land Act
  7. Chapter IV — One Night with the Fugitives
  8. Chapter V — Another Night with the Sufferers
  9. Chapter VI — Our Indebtedness to White Women
  10. Chapter VII — Persecution of Coloured Women in the Orange Free State
  11. Chapter VIII — At Thaba Ncho: A Secretarial Fiasco
  12. Chapter IX — The Fateful 13
  13. Chapter X — Dr. Abdurahman, President of the A.P.O. / Dr. A. Abdurahman, M.P.C
  14. Chapter XI — The Natives’ Land Act in Cape Colony
  15. Chapter XII — The Passing of Cape Ideals
  16. Chapter XIII — Mr. Tengo-Jabavu, the Pioneer Native Pressman
  17. Chapter XIV — The Native Congress and the Union Government
  18. Chapter XV — The Kimberley Congress / the Kimberley Conference
  19. Chapter XVI — The Appeal for Imperial Protection
  20. Chapter XVII — The London Press and the Natives’ Land Act
  21. Chapter XVIII — The P.S.A. and Brotherhoods
  22. Chapter XIX — Armed Natives in the South African War
  23. Chapter XX — The South African Races and the European War
  24. Chapter XXI — Coloured People’s Help Rejected / the Offer of Assistance by the South African Coloured Races Rejected
  25. Chapter XXII — The South African Boers and the European War
  26. Chapter XXIII — The Boer Rebellion
  27. Chapter XXIV — Piet Grobler
  28. Epilogue
  29. Report of the Lands Commission

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