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Poverty, Self-Help and Community: The Survival of the Poor in Cape Town, 1880–1910

Pages 128-143 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

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  • Bozzoli , B. 1987 . “ ‘Class, Community and Ideology in the Evolution of South African Society’ ” . In Class, Community and Conflict: South African Perspectives Edited by: Bozzoli , B. 5 Johannesburg in, ed.
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  • Darley , G. 1989 . Octavia Hill: A Life London The most recent biography of Octavia Hill is
  • J.V. Bickford-Smith, ‘Commerce, Class and Ethnicity in Cape Town, 1875–1902’ (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cambridge, 1988), 47–91
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  • Simkins , C. and van Heyningen , E. B. 1989 . ‘Fertility, Mortality and Migration in the Cape Colony, 1891–1904' . The International Journal of African Historical Studies , 22 : 1 – 7 . 96
  • Bickford-Smith, ‘Commerce, Class and Ethnicity’, 77;E. Bradlow, ‘Cape Town's Labouring Poor a Century Ago’, South African Historical Journal 9 (Nov. 1977), 19–29
  • Kirk , T. 1980 . “ ‘The Cape Economy and the Expropriation of the Kat River Settlement, 1846–53’ ” . In Economy and Society in Pre-Industrial South Africa Edited by: Marks , S. and Atmore , A. 234 – 5 . London See, for instance, the brief comment by, in, eds
  • South African News 22 Jan. 1909
  • South African News 27 Jan. 1909, interview with Colonial Secretary
  • Cape Argus 3 Apr. 1906
  • Ward , K. ‘Employers’ Perceptions of the Labour Market in the Late Nineteenth Century Western Cape: With Reference to the 1893/94 Labour Commission’ (Paper presented to the ‘Cape Slavery and After’ Conference, University of Cape Town, 1989), 15–6
  • South African News 27 Jan. 1909
  • van Heyningen , E. B. ‘Refugees and Relief in Cape Town, 1899–1902’, in C. Saunders and H. Phillips, eds, Studies in the History of Cape Town (hereafter Studies), vol. 3 (University of Cape Town, 1984), 89;Cape Times 11 Oct. 1899
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  • Bickford-Smith , V. 1989 . “ ‘A ‘Special Tradition of Multi-Racialism’? Segregation in Cape Town in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries’ ” . In The Angry Divide: Social and Economic History of the Western Cape Edited by: James , W. G. and Simons , M. 47 – 62 . Cape Town in, eds
  • The evidence of the Transvaal Indigency Commission of 1906–8 (which included the Cape), is a prominent landmark in this growing concern: TG 13–1908
  • Naudé , M. ‘The Role of the Free Dispensary in Public Health in Cape Town, 1860–1910’ (B.A. Hons research essay, University of Cape Town, 1987)
  • Cape Argus 30 Oct. 1890
  • van Heyningen , E. B. ‘Public Health and Society in Cape Town, 1880–1910’ (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cape Town, 1989), 429–30
  • McCormick , K. ‘Language in the Jewish Community of District Six 1880–1940’ (Paper, University of Cape Town, 1990);A. Davids, ‘The “Coloured” Image of Afrikaans in Nineteenth Century Cape Town’, Kronos 17 (1990), 36–47
  • Shell , R. ‘Rites and Rebellion: Islamic Conversion at the Cape, 1808–1915’, in C. Saunders et al., eds, Studies, vol. 5 (University of Cape Town, 1984), 37
  • Mayson , J. S. 1855 . The Malays of Cape Town, South Africa Manchester 16, 24
  • Information supplied by Achmat Davids
  • du , I. D. and Lückhoff , C. A. 1953 . The Malay Quarter and its People Cape Town 26, gives one of many accounts of this practice
  • Davids , A. ‘The Words Slaves Made: A Study of Culture, Languages, Schools and Literacy of the Slaves in Cape Town and their Influence on the Development of Arabic-Afrikaans’ (Paper presented to the ‘Cape Slavery-and After’ Conference, University of Cape Town, 1989)
  • Davids , A. 1980 . The Mosques of Bo-Kaap: A Social History of Islam at the Cape 33 – 4 . Athlone 94–5
  • Du Plessis and Lückhoff . The Malay Quarter 37 – 8 .
  • Zaborowski , M. and Herzog , E. 1952 . Life is with the People 191 – 4 . New York
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  • Shain , M. 1983 . Jewry and Cape Society 3 – 8 . Cape Town
  • University of Cape Town, BC 160, Morris Alexander Collection, Cape Town Jewish Philanthropic Society, Minute Book, 12, 13, 16, 18, 46, 58. Thanks are also due to Gwynne Schrire who provided me with copies of two articles, ‘Adapting to a New Society-the Role of the Cape Town Jewish Philanthropic Society c. 1900’, Proceedings of the Conference of the South African Association of Jewish Studies, in press;‘Medical Problems in a Jewish Welfare Organisation in Turn of the Century Cape Town’, Adler Museum Bulletin in press
  • Cuthbertson , G. ‘The Impact of the Emancipation of Slaves on St Andrew's Scottish Church, Cape Town, 1838–1878’, Studies, vol. 3, 49–63
  • Badham , A. ‘St Mary's Anglican Church as a “Window” on Turn-of-the-Century Woodstock’, (B.A. Hons research essay, University of Cape Town, 1985), ch. 5, has an excellent discussion on the concept of ‘respectability’ in the Cape Town context
  • Cape Argus 29 July 1880
  • 1887 . The Lantern (20 Aug., 7;The Lantern (27 Aug. 1877), 9–10
  • Cape of Good Hope, G. 64–1901, Report on Friendly Societies for 1899 and 1900
  • Cape Argus 31 Jan. 1894. The use of the term ‘genootschap’ implies a Dutch-speaking and probably partly coloured membership
  • Cape Times 26 Apr. 1880
  • Trapido , S. ‘The Origin and Development of the African Political Organization’, The Societies of Southern Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, vol. 1 (Institute of Commonweath Studies, University of London, 1969–70), 92
  • DRC Archives, SA Gestig, SK-G 1/1/1, Notule v/d Kerkraad, 1857–1904
  • Cape Argus 18 Oct. 1894;Cape Times 22 Aug. 1894
  • Cape Argus 13 Apr. 1891, 27 Nov. 1894
  • Van Heyningen . ‘Public Health and Society’, 118
  • Cape Times 2 Jan. 1905
  • 1883 . The Lantern 7 (8 Sep.
  • Van Heyningen . ‘Public Health and Society’, 117
  • Saunders , C. ‘The Creation of Ndabeni: Urban Segregation and African Resistance in Cape Town’, in C. Saunders, ed., Studies, vol. 1 (University of Cape Town, 1979, repr. 1984), 165–193;N. Barnett, ‘Ndabeni 1901–1910: Towards a Social History. The First Ten Years of Cape Town's First Official Location’ (B.A. Hons research essay, University of Cape Town, 1985)
  • Cape of Good Hope, G. 61–1901, Report of the Cape Peninsula Plague Advisory Board, esp. 11, 65–6
  • The later development of such a community is recorded in C.C. Swart, ‘Windermere: From Peri-Urban Area to Suburb (1920's to 1950's)’ (B.A. Hons research essay, University of Cape Town, 1983)
  • Scully , P. ‘Liquor and Labour in Stellenbosch District, 1870–1900’, (Paper presented to the ‘Cape Slavery-and After’ Conference, University of Cape Town, 1989)
  • van Heyningen , E. B. ‘The Social Evil in the Cape Colony 1868–1902: Prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Acts’ . Journal of Southern African Studies , 10 2, (Apr. 1984), 170–197
  • Hallett , R. ‘The Hooligan Riots’, Studies, vol. 1, 42–87
  • The most prominent episode in the nineteenth century had been the ‘Cemetery Riots’ of 1886 when the closure of the local cemeteries for sanitary reasons had threatened Muslim burial practices

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