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Aspects of South African Colonialism in Namibia

Keith Gottschalk

£64.99

Drawing on unpublished archives, this book analyses how the League of Nations' “C class” mandate was gutted of safeguards to protect indigenes, enabling the creation of a settler colony through land expropriation and the allocation of mineral rights.

This book will be of interest to all Namibians and South Africans, especially historians, political scientists, sociologists, and social anthropologists. International relations scholars will also…
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This book will be of interest to all Namibians and South Africans, especially historians, political scientists, sociologists, and social anthropologists.

International relations scholars will also be interested in how Smuts persuaded Wilson to create for the future League of Nations a third-class mandate, a “C class” mandate, which was gutted of all effective safeguards to defend the indigenes of the mandate from a predatory mandatory power. This mandated territory was developed as a settler colony regardless of the clash of interests this created against the indigenes.

This applied especially to land expropriation on behalf of the settlers, confirming the German seizure of land, which the mandatory system was supposed to remedy.

This book draws on unpublished archival records, as well as a close reading of official publications, to analyse an agrarian counter-revolution, and the allocation of minerals and fishing rights for a system of political patronage amongst the rulers. It is a must purchase for every scholarly library.

Keith Gottschalk is an adjunct professor in the Political Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He has over forty scholarly publications, articles and book chapters, on diverse topics. They range from South African colonialism in Namibia, South African politics before 1994, the politics of nuclear power in South Africa, the hydro-politics of the Inga project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, African integration, and space policy.

He also has two poetry collections, and was awarded the national Order of Ikhamanga in Silver for his anti-apartheid performative poetry.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-7262-0
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-7262-7
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Subject Codes:

  • BIC: HBJH, HBWL, HBTQ
  • THEMA: NHH(1DTA), NHWR(3MNQM), NHTQ
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  • "a fascinating study on the much under-studied topic of the mechanics of South Africa's seven-decade political, economic, social, and cultural imperial rule in Namibia. It deserves to be widely read."
    - Professor Adekeye Adebajo, University of Pretoria, South Africa

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