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Title: | Countering Municipal Monopoly in Mamelodi: An Economic Struggle, 1953-1961 |
Author: | Ralinala, Rendani Moses |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
Issue: | 46 |
Period: | May |
Pages: | 203-218 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | monopolies townships illicit trade women beer Politics and Government History and Exploration Economics and Trade Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Historical/Biographical economics Cultural Roles |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470208671424 |
Abstract: | Mamelodi, a black township situated 18 kilometres from the city of Pretoria, South Africa, was established in 1953, following the Native Urban Areas Consolidation Act of 1945. Faced by alarming levels of unemployment, Africans resorted to alternative informal ways of survival in the newly established township. This article analyses illicit beer brewing, which township women practised to break the barriers of poverty that were caused partially by the municipal monopoly on the brewing and selling of beer enforced by the City Council of Pretoria. Coercive measures to curb illicit beer brewing and sales, implemented by both white superintendents and the South African police, influenced women to devise clandestine ways of hiding and selling liquor to their customers. As a result, the government decided to lift the prohibition on the consumption of liquor by blacks in 1961. The article traces the reasons why the City Council of Pretoria opted for a municipal brewing monopoly and the responses of women in the township. Although the core of the article is the struggle by women against the municipal monopoly, it takes cognizance of the involvement of women in various forms of struggles in urban localities, such as the Anti-Pass Campaign and Bus Boycotts. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]s |