Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.54146/newcontree/2022/88/05
Hendrik Snyders
A former British immigrant, John Owen Smith was one of the nineteenth-century Cape Colony’s most prominent businesspersons. With interests in guano trading, farming, shipping, property development, auctioneering and arms trading, he enjoyed a high measure of prosperity and respectability. This resulted from the deliberate employment of several interlinked and often innovative wealth accumulation strategies. Through the skilful utilisation of personal and commercial relationships, Smith became an extremely wealthy person, a de facto functionary in the colonial network and a member of the political elite. This status allowed him a significant measure of influence within the colonial administration. Far from being the result of ‘fortuitous circumstances’ as claimed by some contemporary newspapers, colonial settler wealth was rather the result of deliberate social and economic action. After four decades of wealth accumulation, Smith retired in 1861 and returned to England, where he died in 1871. His business career serves as a useful lens into the wealth accumulation activities and strategies of nineteenth-century colonial entrepreneurs. nature and features of transitional moments and the unfolding of the process of progression, maturation, and transformation of individuals from business novices into competitive businessmen.
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{"title":"War party: How the ANC’s political killings are breaking South Africa","authors":"C. O. Mongale","doi":"10.4102/nc.v87i0.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v87i0.20","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78337451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/03
Hendrik Snyders
{"title":"Changing lifestyles, business, and the politics of the nineteenth-century Cape ice and refrigeration trade","authors":"Hendrik Snyders","doi":"10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":"180 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80174638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/07
J. Fourie, Amy Rommelspacher
{"title":"Marriage in the Mother City: The Anglican marriage records of Cape Town, 1865-1960\u0000","authors":"J. Fourie, Amy Rommelspacher","doi":"10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84452528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/01
V. Bickford-Smith
{"title":"Race and ethnicity in South African urban history: A call to investigate “mingling” as well as “separation” in the city\u0000","authors":"V. Bickford-Smith","doi":"10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":"201 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80178394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/06
Jamu Nyirenda
{"title":"“Inkosi Yetu Ngu Kamuzu Yedwa” (Our Only King Is Kamuzu): The M’mbelwa Ngoni’s relations with Hastings Kamuzu Banda in Malawi from 1964 to 1994","authors":"Jamu Nyirenda","doi":"10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":"22 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72626660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/08
Elize S van Eeden
{"title":"Towards a community engagement turn? Historians debate forms of engagement in 21st century-higher education","authors":"Elize S van Eeden","doi":"10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":"362 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73998026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-01DOI: 10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/02
J. Wassermann
{"title":"Natal Afrikaner women and the South African War (1899-1902)","authors":"J. Wassermann","doi":"10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54146/newcontree/2021/87/02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":"210 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75651722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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