Abstract:
The paper concerning tenant production on the Vereeniging Estates which
follows this preamble, is extracted from a larger study dealing with the
growth of capitalism in the agricultural heartland of South Africa. The
introduction summarises my understanding of the way in which this small but significant part of rural South Africa - farmed by the small-holding,
share-tenant cultivators and pastoralists of the Vereeniging Estates - was
transformed by the forces of an all pervasive capitalism.
