10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BYWONER»
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bywoner in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Afrikaners: Biography of a People
On the remote frontier, farmers for much of the eighteenth century were eager to
have a European bywoner on their farms. In the early years of the frontier a
bywoner was often a prospective white farmer who provided company, helped
protect ...
2
Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinemas
Insiders now live in ostentatious mansions staffed by an urbanised bywoner. A
bywoner is a sub-tenant who lives on a farm. The term usually has the
connotation of a 'poor white' who has been displaced from his property and
forced to subsist ...
3
The Economic Development of the British Overseas Empire
The vast size of the Boer farms encouraged the growth of a bywoner class. The
advent of a few additional white families was no burden to a farmer whose
holding was too big for full cultivation by himself and whose domestic economy
was ...
Lilian Charlotte Anne Knowles, Charles Matthew Knowles, 2005
4
The Last Trek: A Study of the Boer People and the Afrikaner ...
The first consequence of rural poverty was the rise of a new class, the bywoner or
share-cropper. These bywoners were Boers who had been forced ofi' their own
land and who worked for a landlord for a share, whether of crops or of cattle.
5
Facing the Storm: Portraits of Black Lives in Rural South Africa
When Preller sold his grazing farm, Lucas's family moved on to the neighbouring
farm owned by Frans Naude, where Charlie continued to work as a shepherd.
There Lucas entered the service of a white bywoner (or tenant), looking after his ...
Bywoner system is temporary. CHAPTER III. C CAUSES—THE BYWONER
SYSTEM. 127. We have already defined the bywoner as any man or family living
upon land belonging to another without any clearly defined rights or duties.
Transvaal (Colony). Indigency Commission, John W. Quinn, 1908
7
Report of proceedings ...
That is probably due in a large measure to the uncertainty of the position of the
bywoner. His position is determined mainly by oral agreement, and as a result
there is no permanency. The main characteristic of this system is that it lacks the ...
8
Report of the Transvaal Indigency Commission 1906-08
Bywoner system is temporary. CHAPTER III. CAUSES—THE BYWONER
SYSTEM. 127. We have already defined the bywoner as any man or family living
upon land belonging to another without any clearly defined rights or duties.
Transvaal Indigency Commission, 1908
9
The African Poor: A History
Investigating before the depression, the Commission found few whites
unemployed, but it found that wages were often far below a level acceptable to a
racial aristocracy.32 The bywoner who had become a herdsman or shepherd
often earned ...
10
Land and Nationalism in Fictions from Southern Africa
She lovesthe land, she dwells onit;hearrives inthecountry already ata cultural
remove from it, equipped withthelexicon of EuroSouth African landscape:
bouervrou, ländliche, peasant, paysan, eingewurzelt, bywoner.That is enough for
him,at ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BYWONER»
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bywoner is used in the context of the following news items.
Imprisoned by the Freedom Charter
... resonated with the historical experience and self-awareness forged in struggles against the ascendant bywoner, or poor rural Afrikaner class. «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
The Historic Corbelled Houses of the Karoo in South Africa
On Stuurmansfontein Farm outside Carnarvon, you light the candles and relive the frontier days when bywoner (tenant farmer) Fanie Bergh and ... «National Geographic, Jun 14»
BOOK REVIEW: Poor White
He traces the events: the rinderpest, drought, wars, epidemics and the Great Depression that influenced the move of the "bywoner" to the city. «BDlive, Jan 13»
Balm for the soul
Kobus Lötter told that me his grandfather had been a bywoner in Jansenville, until he bought the farm Rietfontein, on which both Doornpoort ... «Independent Online, Jan 13»
How to: archive and back up photos
... populi foreconceive hemialbumose iridectomise naphtholsulphonic unhoed spermogonnia bywoner missileer scandaling ultralogical bioptic ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»
Diary of a kak year
... the video on YouTube and you will see Hofmeyr perched on a tractor, wearing blue overalls and looking like an unusually well-fed bywoner. «Mail & Guardian Online, Dec 08»
