caa a22 4500 386343888 CHVBK 20180307111804.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021853700024142 doi S0021853700024142 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021853700024142 Scully Pamela University of Cape Town Criminality and Conflict in Rural Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1870-1900 [Elektronische Daten] [Pamela Scully] Local studies are sorely needed in South African historiography in order to illuminate relations between dominators and dominated as the colonial political economy was restructured in the wake of the mineral discoveries of the late nineteenth century. Stellenbosch farmers had to confront, for the first time since emancipation, the implications of the proletarianization of the underclass of the Western Cape. In the context of an expanding economy and diversified labour market, labourers left, or threatened to leave, farm employment. Farmers now recognized that the control and power which they had exercised over labourers was a matter of open conflict. This was a time of depression and uncertainty for farmers who faced competition in their overseas markets, the ruining of their vineyards by phylloxera and what they perceived as insubordination and disloyalty by farm labourers at home. The criminal records of the Resident Magistrate provide the lens through which the article examines the changing dynamics of labour relations on the farms of Stellenbosch district between 1870 and 1900. A comparative perspective helps to inform the analysis of the meaning of theft, arson and assault in rural Stellenbosch. For a time labourers were able to exploit a measure of leverage against the farmers, but this was not to last, and by the early 1900s the tide had again turned in favour of the dominant class. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 The Journal of African History Cambridge University Press 30/2(1989-07), 289-300 0021-8537 30:2<289 1989 30 AFH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700024142 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700024142 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Scully Pamela University of Cape Town NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of African History Cambridge University Press 30/2(1989-07), 289-300 0021-8537 30:2<289 1989 30 AFH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge