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After The South African War ended in May 1902, it was immediately clear that, at some point, Britain would seek to unite or federate the southern African colonies it now controlled. 8 Australia’s own federation in 1901 was widely publicised in southern Africa and had renewed debates about future union. Chinese labour importation brought to the forefront concerns regarding the diverse legal and cultural approaches to race in each of the four southern African colonies. 9 In order to secure military victory, the British had agreed in the Vereeniging peace treaty not to interfere with the ‘native’ policies of the Transvaal or ORC, but to leave it until self-government was granted to decide what changes should be made.
It is nonsense to speak of South Africa as a white man’s country at present in the same sense that Australia is. 1 Even if ‘whites’ were more united, they only made up a small fraction of the overall population, and yet British colonial policies specifically focused on turning the region into a ‘white’ colony. These concerns became encapsulated in the phrases, the ‘labour question’ or ‘native problem’ in southern Africa. 2 Both reflected colonial concerns about labour and racial hierarchies. How to actually 22 The Transvaal Labour ‘Problem’ 23 encourage Africans to work was particularly problematic.
The idea was that this would force Africans to work longer to secure the money to pay their taxes. 35 The mine owners assumed that Africans would not care that they were being paid less money for the same amount of work, because Africans did not think like that. 9 per cent within a year. 36 Labour solutions The obvious economic solution was to restructure the labour system so that it was not inhibited by race-based hiring policies. If the mines had really been motivated purely by economic considerations, this would have been the ideal solution.