Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Figures......Page 10
Preface: The Birth of the Political......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 17
1 Eyewitness Engagements (Highveld political discourse at the start of the 1800s)......Page 19
Borderlands......Page 20
Wikar and Gordon and the “Twin Courts”......Page 24
Journey to Dithakong: Missionaries, Métis, and Bechuana North of the Orange (“Great”) River......Page 27
Ancestors as Chiefs......Page 35
The Wesleyan Encounter with the Highveld, 1822–24......Page 40
Fathers and Brothers......Page 42
Sefunelo and His Court......Page 45
Debates about the Mfecane or Highveld Difaqane......Page 52
Gender and Warfare in 1822–4......Page 58
2 History before Tribes (Partnership, alliance, and power)......Page 60
The Central Cattle Plan (CP) and Zimbabwe Plan (ZP)......Page 63
The S-Group Bantu-Speakers......Page 65
The Rozvi and South Africa......Page 71
The Evidence of Oral Tradition: The Twin (Teb –) Courts via Ellenberger and Breutz......Page 77
History as a Network of Options......Page 82
Lion......Page 85
Crocodile......Page 88
3 Translations (Missionaries and the invention of Christianity)......Page 92
Robert Moffat (at Large)......Page 94
Rain, Tobacco, Chiefs......Page 97
A Comparative Look at the Grasslands of the East......Page 102
Creating God’s Kingdom, Part 1: Initial Translations......Page 105
Prayer in Two Versions......Page 107
Creating God’s Kingdom, Part 2: Chuin, 1827......Page 113
The Conundrum of Jesus Crucified and Returning......Page 118
Creating God’s Kingdom, Part 3: Beyond Ha-rotse......Page 119
Metaphors......Page 121
In Sum: Translation as Transformation......Page 123
4 The Incipient Order (Moroka’s reign, 1828–1880)......Page 126
The Valley of the Middle River......Page 128
Métis, Christian, Chief: Interpenetrations and Formations of Power in the 1830s......Page 132
Boers......Page 136
Christianity and Ethnicity, Part I......Page 137
Coloureds......Page 140
Barolong and Basuto and …......Page 142
The Midcentury War(s) against the Colony......Page 149
Industry, War, and the Loss of the Middle Valley......Page 155
Christianity and Ethnicity, Part II: the End of Chiefly Power......Page 159
Coloured(s) Revisited......Page 162
Photography and Tribal Types......Page 164
Christianity and Ethnicity, Part III: Anglicanism, Seleka Court Politics, and Samuel Moroka......Page 167
Chiefship and Tribal Biology on Trial......Page 174
5 Mixed People (The Samuelites, the Griqua, and other subjectivities, 1880–1928)......Page 180
Amenable … to Be Killed......Page 182
Discourses of Victory......Page 185
The Wider Frame: 1880–1900......Page 188
Killed the Matabele God......Page 191
The Samuelites at the Ends of the Earth: the Tati District......Page 192
Toward Union (1910)......Page 196
Tribes qua Tribes......Page 204
The Samuelites’ Search for Land......Page 205
The Youngmen of the 1920s......Page 213
A. A. S. Le Fleur and the Griqua Movement......Page 218
The Wider Frame, 1910s–1920s......Page 223
Late Segregation and the Samuelites......Page 226
The Almost-Seen and the Almost-Heard......Page 230
6 Twentieth-Century Tribes......Page 232
Models of Self-Representation: The Tati Samuelites and the Matsheka Thaba Nchu Samuelites......Page 233
Anthropology: Real Mobilizations, Isaac Schapera, and “the Tswana”......Page 241
Whisper......Page 245
In the Greatness We Were People of …......Page 250
About the Land: Is That a Political Matter, or …?......Page 256
Postscript: The Prophet Mokaleng......Page 259
What Is Argued in This Book......Page 264
Primary and Archival Sources......Page 269
Bibliography......Page 275
Index......Page 303