Identifier: southafricaitsfu00argy (find matches)
Title: South Africa and its future
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of, 1845-1914 Creswicke, Louis
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Publisher: London : T.C. & E.C. Jack
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t merely acase of Briton versus Boer ; it is not in Cape Colony simply a caseof Dutch Africander versus British loyalist. In the Transvaal theproblem is not solely how to bring the Boers and English together,or how to conciliate and retain the loyalty of those men, largely ofBritish origin, formerly known as Uitlanders. A labour party,championing a programme practically identical with that with whichall students of later-day politico-social questions are familiar, iscoming into existence, and is, I think, certain to make itself a powerin the land as time advances. It has been frequently, if somewhathastily, assumed that in South Africa generally parties will followthe lines of division common to most civilised communities, andrange themselves in camps, the composition of which will bedetermined respectively by the place of residence and occupation ofthe units of the people ; the interests, sentiments, and aspirationsof the town dwellers being at variance with those of the rural in- 72
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Problems and Possibilities habitants. In a sense, we may take the people of Johannesburgto represent what passes for the urban population of old-settledcountries. Roughly speaking, the citizens of the older establishedand smaller towns were dependent for their existence, and are likelyto continue to be so dependent, on the agriculturists, since outsidethe Rand the Transvaal had no industries, no manufactures worthconsidering : for some time to come she is not likely to have any.So the Rand stood and stands for the towns, and the Uitlanders for thetownsmen. The rest of the State stood and stands for the country,and, the agriculturists being mainly Dutch, the Boers stand for thecountrymen. In the future, however, the race question, which haspractically overruled any dividing lines drawn on the basis oftownsmen and countrymen in Cape Colony, should cease to govern,in quite the old way, the political antagonisms of the inhabitants ofthe Transvaal ; in any case, if the various schemes for

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