TY - BOOK ID - 85463370 TI - Land, chiefs, mining : South Africa's North West Province since 1840 AU - Manson, Andrew AU - Mbenga, Bernard PY - 2014 SN - 1868149927 186814772X 1868147711 PB - Johannesburg : Wits University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Blacks KW - Land tenure KW - Chiefdoms KW - Mines and mineral resources KW - Hurutshe (African people) KW - Tswana (African people) KW - Negroes KW - Ethnology KW - Agrarian tenure KW - Feudal tenure KW - Freehold KW - Land ownership KW - Land question KW - Landownership KW - Tenure of land KW - Land use, Rural KW - Real property KW - Land, Nationalization of KW - Landowners KW - Serfdom KW - Chieftaincies KW - Chieftainships KW - Political anthropology KW - Deposits, Mineral KW - Mineral deposits KW - Mineral resources KW - Mines and mining KW - Mining KW - Natural resources KW - Geology, Economic KW - Minerals KW - Bahurutshe (African people) KW - Batswana (African people) KW - Batswanas (African people) KW - Bechuana (African people) KW - Beetjuans (African people) KW - Chuana (African people) KW - Coana (African people) KW - Cuana (African people) KW - Tswana (Bantu tribe) KW - Tswanas (African people) KW - Sotho (African people) KW - History. KW - North-West (South Africa) KW - Noordwes (South Africa) KW - Province of North-West (South Africa) KW - North West Province (South Africa) KW - Transvaal (South Africa) KW - Black persons KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85463370 AB - Land, Chiefs, Mining explores aspects of the experience of the Batswana in the thornveld and bushveld regions of the North-West Province, shedding light on defi ning issues, moments and individuals in this lesser known region of South Africa. Some of the focuses are: an important Tswana kgosi (chief ), Moiloa II of the Bahurutshe; responses to and participation in the South African War and its aftermath, 1899-1907; land acquisition; economic and political conditions in the 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, and illustrated with photographs and maps, the book provides an understanding, for a general reader ship, of the region and its recent history. At the same time it opens up avenues for further research. The authors, Andrew Manson and Bernard Mbenga, both based at North-West University, Mahikeng Campus, have, for some thirty years, been studying and writing on the region's past. ER -