Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index (pages 256-263).
Contents:
1. African miners in the pre-colonial era and at the diamond fields -- 2. Land losses and legal struggles -- 3. Native merchants in agriculture -- seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 4. Native farmers and merchants -- nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- 5. Natives as hoteliers, guesthouse and estate agency owners -- 6. Native restaurateurs, grocers and retailers --7. Native artisan merchants -- 8. Native newspaper proprietors, printers and publishers -- 9 Native transport merchants -- from creaking ox-wagon to cranking engine -- 10. Native merchants in financial services -- 11. The fight for trading rights.
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