SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.57 número1The fork in the road? British reactions to the election of an apartheid government in South Africa, May 1948South Africa's revised history curriculum on globalism and national narratives in grade 12 textbooks índice de autoresíndice de assuntospesquisa de artigos
Home Pagelista alfabética de periódicos  

Serviços Personalizados

Artigo

Indicadores

Links relacionados

  • Em processo de indexaçãoCitado por Google
  • Em processo de indexaçãoSimilares em Google

Compartilhar


Historia

versão On-line ISSN 2309-8392
versão impressa ISSN 0018-229X

Resumo

VISSER, Karen  e  DU PISANI, Kobus. The establishment of the Skanskop Island irrigation settlement as a milestone in poverty relief through personal initiative. Historia [online]. 2012, vol.57, n.1, pp.105-126. ISSN 2309-8392.

Skanskop Island is one of the irrigation settlements established in the early part of the twentieth century along the Lower Orange River (today the Gariep River) with the aim to help relieve the poor white problem. After the investigation of the Carnegie Commission and the Kimberley Congress dealing with poverty among whites, both the state and the church adopted an approach in the 1930s of giving only limited support to poor agricultural communities to stimulate them to improve their position through self-activity. If they succeeded in becoming successful agricultural producers, they would also make a contribution to the national economy and the development of the region. Although the first settlers at Skanskop received only minimal support from the state and possessed limited resources, most of them were successfully settled on the land. Driven by the will to provide for themselves and their families, they were prepared to perform hard physical labour. They utilised the simple techniques and technologies available to them to "tame" nature and to prepare the fertile soil for production. This article sketches the historical background of the establishment of the Skanskop Island settlement, describes the laborious processes through which the land was prepared for production, and evaluates the efforts of the settlers to lift themselves and their offspring from a state of poverty to become independent producers.

Palavras-chave : agricultural development; irrigation schemes; land cultivation methods; Lower Orange (Gariep) River; poor white problem; poverty relief; Skanskop Island.

        · resumo em Africaner     · texto em Africaner     · Africaner ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License Todo o conteúdo deste periódico, exceto onde está identificado, está licenciado sob uma Licença Creative Commons