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Title: | The Parameters of Dependence in Southern Africa: A Case Study of Swaziland |
Author: | Crush, Jonathan S. |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Affairs |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | January |
Pages: | 55-66 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Swaziland - Eswatini |
Subjects: | colonial economy economic history Inter-African Relations Politics and Government Economics and Trade |
Abstract: | The most significant event in the economic history of Swaziland has been designated as the gradual introduction of the money economy to a society whose economy was traditional, subsistent, local and self-sufficient. The process began in the nineteenth century, and was facilitated in the early twentieth century by the expropriation of two-thirda of the land by colonial Britain on behalf of settler interests, the concomitant substitution of capitalist agricultural production over large areas of the country, the introduction of a rigorous taxation system, and the demands for cheap labor by settlers and South African mining interests. Independent Swaziland inherited an economy deeply penetrated and controlled by South African and British capital, an inflexible South African control of Swaziland's tenuous links with the outside world and the prospects for increased integration into the white dominated regional subsystem as Britain withdrew its political control from the country. Notes, tab. |