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INFRASTRUCTURE, ETHNICITY, AND POLITICAL MOBILIZATION IN NAMIBIA, 1946–87

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Abstract

This article uses the copper mining town Tsumeb to examine urban infrastructure, ethnicity, and African political solidarities in apartheid Namibia. To translate apartheid to Namibia, South Africa re-planned Namibian towns to reinforce colonial divisions between two classes of African laborers: mostly Ovambo migrant laborers from northern Namibia and Angola and, secondly, ethnically diverse laborers from the zone of colonial settlement and investment, the Police Zone. Housing and infrastructure were key to this social engineering project, serving as a conduit for official and company ideas about ‘Ovambo’ and Police Zone laborers. Yet Africans’ uses of infrastructure and ethnic discourses challenged, and provoked debates about the boundaries of urban social and political belonging. Between the 1971–2 general strike of northern contract workers and the 1987 strike against the multinational Tsumeb Corporation Limited, which involved northern contract workers and community members, Africans built a political community that challenged both company and colonial state.

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NamibiaSouth AfricaSouthern Africaapartheidlaborpoliticsurban
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The Journal of African History , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 45 - 66
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Research for this article was funded by a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant, as well as Stanford University's Center for African Studies and the School of Humanities and Sciences. I am grateful to Richard Roberts, James Campbell, Gabrielle Hecht, Michael Akuupa, Kletus Likuwa, Richard Waller, and Ian Phimister for comments, discussions, and support during the period of research and writing, as well as to two anonymous reviewers from The Journal of African History, though any errors are my own. Author's email: [email protected].

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3 About 1,000 Nomtsoub residents participated in the strike, compared to some 2,000 residents of Tsumeb compound. I calculated the number of Nomtsoub strikers by checking newspaper coverage of the strike against previous numbers of occupants of the three TCL compounds. M. Verbaan and R. Munamava, ‘TCL eviction order succeeds’, The Namibian, 21 Aug. 1987; Gordon, R. J., Mines, Masters and Migrants: Life in a Namibian Compound (Johannesburg, 1977), 47Google Scholar; R. Munamava, ‘Police swoop to arrest 16’, The Namibian, 7 Aug. 1987; ‘TCL workers’ appeal dismissed’, The Namibian, 28 Aug. 1987.

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40 NAN PLA 1033 P84/39/3/1, Secretary Tsumeb Village Management Board to the Secretary of SWA, ‘Aansoek om lenings: Tsumeb inboorlingwoonbuurt’, 24 June 1965.

41 NAN BAC 164 HN 9/15/3/30, P. H. Swartz to Chief Bantu Affairs Commissioner, 29 Sept. 1962.

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44 NAN BAC 164 HN 9/15/3/30, ‘Jaarverslag 1958’; NAN MTS 9 N1/35, ‘Jaarverslag 1968’.

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71 The events are filtered through the witnesses’ recollections, as well as their perceptions of how ethnicity, comportment, and place of residence interrelated. The transcriptions of testimonies assign an ethnicity to each witness, so that the perceptions and assumptions of the police also enter the mix. All of the testimonies were given in Afrikaans.

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75 NAN LTS 5/1 1/75, T. Martin testimony, 3 Sept. 1974.

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88 NAN PLA 1034 P84/39/3/1, Town Clerk to SWA Administrator General, ‘Nie-blanke behuising’, 8 Mar. 1978.

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91 Ibid. For comparison, Nomtsoub's Damara population, which increased as quickly as the location's northern population in the 1960s, increased only 6.1 per cent, from 1,801 to 1,910, between 1977 and 1982. The corresponding numbers for Hereros were a decrease of 28.8 per cent, from 660 to 470.

92 NAN PLA 1034 P84/39/3/1, ‘Verslag oor die vervanging van bouvallige wonings in Nomtsoub’, Sept. 1977.

93 NAN PLA 1034 P84/39/3/1, Acting Town Clerk to Director of Local Government, ‘Nie-blanke behuising: Nomtsoub woonbuurt lening fase 7 – behuising vir bevolkingsaanwas’, 7 Nov. 1979.

94 NAN PB/3398, National Building and Investment Corporation of South West Africa/Namibia, ‘A socio-economic study of households in Nomtsoub (“Soweto” and the rest of Nomtsoub)’, Nov. 1985.

95 TMA, ‘Verslag van sy Edelagbare, Die Burgemeester Raadslid Tonie Botes vir die jaartydperk geëindig 21 Maart 1984’.

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98 ‘Goldfields under fire at AGM’, The Namibian, 29 Nov. 1985; Morris, Going for Gold, 135–6 and 181–3.

99 ‘Goldfields takes over’, The Namibian, 28 Nov. 1986.

100 Bauer, Labor and Democracy, 45.

101 ‘Public holiday fiasco’, The Namibian, 20 Mar. 1987; ‘May 1 is now a public holiday’, The Namibian, 17 Apr. 1987.

102 The Namibian featured full-page ads in almost every issue from 20 March through the first week in May.

103 R. Munamava, ‘TCL workers turn out in force at Tsumeb rally’, The Namibian, 8 May 1987.

104 Ibid.

105 R. Munamava, ‘Tsumeb consumer boycott enters third week’, The Namibian, 26 June 1987.

106 M. Ngavirue, ‘TCL can't meet demands’, The Namibian, 17 July 1987.

107 R. Munamava, ‘TCL corporation still crippled by strikes’, ‘MUN officials banned from TCL meeting’, The Namibian, 24 July 1987; NAN PC/0116, MUN, ‘Miners speak’.

108 See note 3 above.

109 Verbaan and Munamava, ‘TCL eviction order’.

110 ‘Unhappy Resident’, ‘Tsumeb problems’, The Namibian, 1 July 1988.

111 ‘Worried Student’, ‘On Otjikoto’, The Namibian, 12 Aug. 1988.