Ontstaan van die eerste landbou- en boereverenigings in die Kaapkolonie tot 1883

Abstract

The first agricultural societies in the Cape Colony were established during the first half of the 19th century. Owing to their limited economic objectives, these agricultural societies did not satisfy the expectations of the farming community. Consequently the farmers felt the need to establish farmers' associations which could further both their economic and political aims which they realized were inseparable. As a result farmers' associations were founded within a specific regional context. They can be divided into three categories, namely the Afrikaans-speaking associations in the eastern districts of the Colony, the English-speaking (also in the eastern districts), and those in the predominantly Afrikaans-speaking western areas: These farmers' associations exercised such an influence on economic and political events in the Cape Colony especially during the 1870s and 1880s that their existence cannot be ignored by regional historians.