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Oral History Project, African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand

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Kind interviews oral history
Producer African Studies Institute, Wits
Coverage 1979-1989 interviews
Works using it 7

Debates

Debate Works
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 5
Farm labour: mechanisation, labour shedding, wages and labour control 2
Resistance and liberation movements 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Bradford (1990) Interview with Daniel van Rooyen, University of the Witwatersrand African Studies Institute Oral History Project (1989) 1989 (recalling 1920s-1940s) Tenant's recollection of conditions on Lazarus's farm and the price of a person.
Budlender (1984) African Studies Institute Oral History project interviews (former labour tenants, incl. Schweizer-Reineke district) early-to-mid 20th century recollections (c. 1920s onwards) Testimony of former labour tenants that tractors and threshing machines displaced tenants and forced sale of cattle.
Keegan (1985) Oral History Project interviews, African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand (1979-1984) 1979-1984 (recalling c.1905-1930s) Informants' memories supply evidence on goat sales, third-share sharecropping, land purchases (Mogopa), and the social decline of sharecroppers.
Keegan (1986) Oral History Project, African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand oral evidence on post-World War I rural change Basis for claims about the coexistence of different tenancy types and the declining options of black households.
Murray (1987) Wits Oral History Project material used by Keegan not specified Incorporated by Keegan into the rewritten thesis as 'fascinating material' on rural transformation.
Schirmer (1994) African Studies Institute Oral History Project, Tape 46 A/B, Interview with Kotana Stefaans Modipa, 1979 1979 Supports description of Boomplaats irrigation and farming.
Schirmer (1995) African Studies Institute Oral History Project interview with T. R. Molotsi n.d. Quoted to show African rejection of white land claims.