Class, race and gender : the political economy of women in colonial Natal.
Abstract
Colonial Natal has become an increasingly popular field of investigation
for historians of Southern Africa over the last decade or so. This trend
is not premature or " irrelevant for, although not demonstrating" the
economic impact of the diamond-mining industry of the Cape, or the
gold-mining industry of the Transvaal, the political " economy of
nineteenth century Natal played a significant role in forming patterns of
South African social and economic development, as well as attitudes
towards this, not least of all in terms of labour exploitation.
The history of Natal during this period has been lacking by and large in
what I consider to be two important aspects. Firstly, the colony, on the
whole, has been neglected by Marxist and radical historians; and
secondly, the history of women in South Africa, as yet a nascent area of
research in itself, has not included an attempt to date, understand
the lives of those women who lived along the south-east coastal belt of
Southern Africa, between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean. This
study strives to be a preliminary step in the direction of redressing
this imbalance, by offering an introductory exposition on the political
economy of women in colonial Natal.
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