- Title
- A study of Bantu retail traders in certain areas of the Eastern Cape
- Title
- Occasional papers, no. 9
- Creator
- Savage, Richard Brougham
- Subject
- Black people -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date
- 1966
- Type
- Book
- Type
- Text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2758
- Identifier
- vital:20323
- Description
- In this study, consideration has been given only to the Bantu in retail trade in the Bantu areas (which are predominantly rural) and in the smaller urban complexes outside these areas. Retail trade m the rural Bantu areas of the Eastern Cape has until recent years been the near-monopoly of the Whites, who still retain the bulk of this business. White traders provide the channel through which most goods are imported' into these areas and it is through them that a large part of all local produce is exported'. They act as 'middlemen', buying local produce for resale on the local domestic market. They are an important source of credit and their trading stations are important social centres in the normal run of events of the local communities. White traders have always offered other services apart from merely supplying material needs. They act as postmasters and there are frequent calls for their advice, and in cases of illness and birth, for their motor cars.
- Description
- Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
- Format
- 136 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Occasional papers, no. 9
- Rights
- Rhodes University
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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