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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04648-1 - Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900–1948 John Higginson Index More information Index aankoord , 40 and 1914 Rebellion, 345 African agriculture, 6 and Afrikaner youth, 354 African irregulars and the “shirt” movements, 26 , 346 African soldiers fi ghting under British or apartheid government of 1948, 137 their own leaders during South African Apartheid Manifesto, 341 War, 33 , 37 , 46 , 49 , 50 , 59 , 61 , 65 , 66 , 74 , as a “network of rackets,” 351 77 , 96 , 99 , 101 , 114 , 350 “grand apartheid,” 20 African peasant smallholders, 31 , 37 , 58 , 102 protracted demise, 358 African peasants arme blankedom . See bywoners: during 1914 Rebellion, 164 poor whites during aftermath of South African War, Armeburgersfonds Applikasie Boek 84 , 101 Poor Burgher Relief, 44 during South African War, 62 , 65 , 67 , 68 Atkins, Keletso, 4 African protest, 4 Afrikaanse Ekonomiese Boere Verbond , 185 Baden-Powell, R. S. S. General, 52 , 53 , 55 , 57 , Afrikaanse Nasionale Studentbond , 321 58 , 97 , 319 Alberts, Sarel Francois formation of South African captured at Swartsruggens in December Constabulary, 68 1914, 173 speculation on future of South African early planner of 1914 Rebellion, 165 Constabulary, 97 fl ight to rebel stronghold Steenbokfontein, Bailey, Abe Sir, 294 November 1914, 172 bangziekte or “shell shock,” 46 leader of 1914 Rebellion, 161 Barnard, Willem, 65 Nationalist M. P. from Magaliesberg in adolescent guerrilla soldier and murderer of 1932, 291 African transport rider Franz, December on trial with Grobler and van Broekhuizen 1900, 63 in 1915, 180 Barnato, Barney, 36 sold farm in Thabazimbi, June 1905, 92 Barrett, E. Tielman Roos supporter, 299 Secretary of Native Affairs to 1917, 200 Aling, N. F., 163 , 203 , 204 Baviaanspoort Prison, 341 Rustenburg magistrate, 149 Beaumont Commission, 1914, 200 Anderson, J. J., 198 African communities protested its apartheid, 4 , 9 recommendations, 207 383 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04648-1 - Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900–1948 John Higginson Index More information 384 Index Bechuanaland Protectorate (presently Dr. Duncan’s visit during typhoid outbreak, Botswana), 45 , 143 , 147 , 173 , 210 , 212 , 1923, 253 , 254 213 , 219 , 241 Dr. Robertson’s 1924 report, 255 as source of labor for Rustenburg’s cotton growth of Full Gospel Church, 253 farms, 348 black spots, 358 , 362 , 363 Beinart, William, 17 , 23 areas Africans continued to own and work Beit, Alfred, 36 well after the advent of apartheid, 360 Benson, C. M. Bodenstein, L., 255 lawyer form Fokeng dissidents, 1923, 248 Boer prisoners of war, 26 , 83 Bester, A. M., 84 adolescent inmates, 77 “Irreconciliable” fro, 82 after-effects of imprisonment, 16 Beverley, Johannes “irreconcilable” nature of many, 79 witness to Hurutshe purchase of farm “irreconcilables” in Bermuda, Ceylon, India Leuuwfontein in 1876, 91 and St. Helena, 80 Beyers, C. F. W., 52 , 138 prison camps versus civilian concentration at farm Damhoek in Rustenburg, October camps, 79 1914, 169 protests and marked increase of beginning of 1914 Rebellion, 168 “Irreconcilables” among prisoners, 82 Beyers, Christiaan De Wet and J. C. G Tucker’s Island in Bermuda, 63 Kemp hold open-air meeting at farm boerende boere , 309 Kafferskraal in Rustenburg in September one crop maize farmers from South Africa’s 1914, 168 agricultural heartland, 185 Beyers, Grobler and Wolmarans’s boerestand , 6 , 19 , 21 , 90 , 185 , 257 , 345 , 351 disingenuous appeal to Afrikaner farmers Bok, W. E., 235 , 246 , 249 during 1914 Rebellion, 161 Bonner, Phillip, 4 censured by fellow Het Volk leaders Louis Boonzaier, D. C., 321 Botha and Jan Smuts, 118 political cartoonist and creator of the fl ight from Commissiedrift, November anti-Semitic caricature 1914, 172 “Hoggenheimer,” 233 “Irreconcilable” or bittereinder ex-Boer Botha, Louis, 28 , 29 , 30 , 47 , 57 , 111 , 112 , general, Commander of South African 117 , 123 , 124 , 126 , 133 , 134 , 135 , 136 , Defense Force and prinicpal leader of the 137 , 146 , 149 , 160 , 163 , 167 , 170 , 172 , 1914 Rebellion, 28 184 , 187 , 188 , 228 , 233 , 241 , 332 letter to “Rooi Jan” du Plessis, 21 October Botha, P. W., 358 , 361 , 365 1914, 171 Botha, T. P., 234 , 235 , 347 meeting with Commandant Mannie Bozzoli, Belinda, 4 , 10 Maritz in Pretoria on the eve of 1914 Braaklaagte, 15 , 290 Rebellion, 166 Bradford, Helen, 4 , 17 persisting popularity among middling and Brakfontein, 54 poor Afrikaner farmers, 126 Brakpan, 190 speech at Nylstroom in October 1903, 106 during the anti-Jewish violence of 1938, 329 test run for the 1914 Rebellion, 156 midsized gold mining town on Far East with de la Rey on the night of the latter’s Rand, 190 , 347 murder, 165 Brandon, H. St. P. P., 213 with General J. H. Koos de la Rey at concluded several squadrons of South Nooitgedacht in December 1900, 55 African Mounted Rifl es should be with Louis Botha at September 1905 indefi nitely stationed in Marico and meeting with Lieutenant Governor, 117 Rustenburg, 214 Beyntespoort conversations with Boer Nationalists bywoner settlement, 253 , 256 and police informants Hoffman and culpability of local farmers, Bodenstein and Topper, 213 van Sluys. See Bodenstein, L. detective, CID division of SAP, 211 , 212 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04648-1 - Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900–1948 John Higginson Index More information Index 385 Brink, M. C. P., 234 , 235 , 236 , 239 , 347 Marico and northern Rustenburg as prime accusations against local police, 236 , cattle and dairy farming regions, 18 237 , 238 plummeting prices after First World War, 16 threats against Spiller, 238 spread of cattle diseases during drought wife’s court case, 235 years, 167 Brits, 19 , 20 , 87 , 150 , 197 , 213 , 225 , 244 , 245 , cattle smuggling 246 , 248 , 249 , 250 , 251 , 255 , 267 , 270 , in Elands River Ward after 1912, 203 271 , 272 , 274 , 276 , 279 , 298 , 312 , 328 , Chamberlain, Joseph, 69 , 105 , 122 335 , 349 British Secretary of the Colonies during the heightened contention between African South African War, 36 tenants and white landlords in 1923, 245 cheap labor thesis, 6 Naiborsky murder trial of December Chinese workers 1938, 328 as indentured servants on Rand, 27 over plowing protests of 1920, 226 white moral panic in countryside, 87 white moral panic of 1938, 309 white vigilantism and Chinese labor riots of Broederbond 1905, 28 and Afrikaner youth groups, 319 Cockerell, A. Corporal and Eerste Ekonomiese Volkskongres or detective sent to investigate rebellion rumors First Economic Congress, 332 in 1917, 222 and Federasie van Afrikaanse Combrinck, J. J. Kulturverenigings , 318 passive supporter of 1914 and Ossewa Brandwag , 318 Rebellion, 239 and “Purifi ed” Nationalists, 320 Compensation Judicial Commission (CJC), and volksbewegings or popular vigilance 70 , 74 committees, 320 politics of, 126 origins, 320 postwar hearings, 86 Bullhoek massacre Corner House Eastern Cape, May 1921, 256 administrative nerve center of the gold Bundy, Colin, 4 , 17 , 23 mines of the Central Rand, 36 Bushmen cotton, 227 , 266 , 274 , 279 , 280 derogatory term for San people. See 4 expansion of midsized farms, 273 bywoners, 29 , 149 , 150 , 277 global cotton prices began to fall as after South African War, 102 transport costs began to rise in at Hartebeestpoort Settlement, 249 1924, 268 during South African War, 51 Hex River Ward,, Mabeskraal and poor whites, 26 Swartruggens were prime growing areas, 201 Carnegie Foundation, 9 labor composed of African women and cattle children, 269 cattle and land as fl ashpoints for African locust infestation, April 1922, 257 and white farmers in Hex River Ward, 16 mining base metals began to overshadow effects of Red Water and East Coast cotton cultivation after 1926, 269 Fever, 123 over a million pounds were harvested in general dissatisfaction with increased number Rustenburg in 1921, 257 of cattle inspectors after Union, 136 Rustenburg’s ginneries, 309 increasing reluctance of white landowners sharp price increase after First World to allow their African labor tenants to War, 206 have more than fi ve head of cattle, 40 transportation problems compounded after increasing tendency of white farmers to 1922, 269 confi scate African cattle after 1912, 89 Cotton Growers Co-Operative Society, 266 losses during rinderpest and Red Water fever Criminal Investigation Department (CID). outbreaks, 37 See South African Police © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-04648-1 - Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900–1948 John Higginson Index More information 386 Index Cronje, Jan Du Plessis, “Rooi Jan” son of ex-Boer general Piet Cronje and 1914 captured on his own farm, 173 rebel, 160 closing moments of 1914 Rebellion, 170 Cronje, Jan Fanie correspondence with General Beyers, 171 wealthy farmer and landlord at early conspirator of 1914 Rebellion, 165 Vlakplaas, 149 leader of 1914 Rebellion, 161 Cronje, Piet du Toit, C. W. M. Reverend ill-starred Boer general, 48 “Purifi ed” Nationalist MP from Marico, Curtis, Lionel, 54 1938, 310 Cyferfontein Conference du Toit, J. (“Totius”) Boer guerrilla leaders attempt to form a Afrikaner Nationalist ideologue, 338 government in the fi eld,