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Title: | Constraints upon popular racial killing: a South African case |
Author: | Krikler, Jeremy |
Year: | 2007 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
Issue: | 58 |
Pages: | 203-225 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | homicide strikes rebellions Whites 1922 |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470709464750 |
Abstract: | In 1922, on South Africa's Witwatersrand, there was a white miners' strike against employer attempts to increase working hours, reduce wages, reorganize production and replace white with African workers. In the midst of this struggle, white proletarians and their allies were suddenly gripped by hysterical fears that black people were about to turn murderously upon their communities. Whites turned upon local Africans, killing around twenty of them. This paper investigates why they killed fewer Africans than they could have. It shows that the police, the leaders and organizations of a workers' movement, people sympathetic to potential victims, resistance by Africans, the complex enmeshment of black and white people in master-servant relations - all these served to restrain attacks that could have been far more devastating. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |