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POVERTY AND RESPECTABILITY IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CAPE TOWN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2019

WAYNE DOOLING
WAYNE DOOLING*
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Abstract

Cape Town's black population of the early twentieth century actively pursued lifestyles that might be described as respectable. But respectability was expensive, and poverty —characterised by poor housing, ill health and shortened lifespans — stood in the way of some of its most essential elements: cleanliness, sexual restraint, sobriety, and the creation of nuclear and gendered households. Black respectability, therefore, could not simply replicate that of the dominant white bourgeoisie. Most challenging was the development of rampant black criminality, often seen by contemporary observers as the result of the failure of black women to realise respectable households. Even attempts on the part of the state to create respectable citizenries floundered, partly because these initiatives were incompatible with the policies of racial segregation. The state and the dominant bourgeoisie put their faith in the black elite as the standard-bearers of respectability, but the reality was that the respectability of the ‘superior’ class was frequently indistinguishable from those below, a consequence of the fact that the boundary between these classes was highly porous.

Keywords

South AfricaSouthern Africapovertycrimealcohol
Type
Forum on Poverty
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The Journal of African History , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , November 2018 , pp. 411 - 435
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019 

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Footnotes

An earlier version of this paper was presented at Leiden University to celebrate the brilliant career of Professor Robert Ross. I am grateful to participants of that workshop, as well as to members of the Wits History Workshop and the Department of History at the University of South Africa for their insightful comments. I am especially indebted to Ruth Watson, Nicholas Southey, Angus Lockyer, and Shabnum Tejani for their critical reading of respective drafts. Author's e-mail: wd2@soas.ac.uk.

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60 ‘Where Cape Town's clothes are washed’, Cape Argus, 15 Jan. 1929.

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93 ‘Like a village of the dead’, Cape Argus, 27 Sept. 1930.

94 CA 3/CT 4/1/5/1266, Meeting at Langa, 25 Oct. 1930.

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96 CA 3/CT 4/1/5/576, Slums Bill, 1934, Evidence to be submitted before the Parliamentary Select Committee by delegates representing the Council of the City of Cape Town; ‘Klipfontein Road Scheme Rejected’, Cape Argus, 28 May 1930.

97 ‘Non-European housing scheme’, Cape Argus, 29 Dec. 1928.

98 ‘City's housing policy’, Cape Times, 30 Mar. 1933; ‘Escape from the slums’, Cape Argus, 19 Jun. 1935.

99 CA 3/CT 4/1/5/1021, Bokmakirie Township, Athlone, Reports of Medical Officer of Health re Insanitary Conditions of Dwellings in Cape Town.

100 ‘Suburban homes at Athlone’, Cape Argus, 14 Jan. 1929.

101 ‘Escape from the slums’, Cape Argus, 19 Jun. 1935.

102 University of Cambridge, African Studies Library, Wilcocks Commission Evidence, ‘Memorandum by J. de Kock’, 29 Mar. 1935.

103 ‘Suburban homes at Athlone’, Cape Argus, 14 Jan. 1929.

104 ‘200 Years to rid city of slums’, Cape Argus, 22 Feb. 1935; ‘Move to speed up city housing schemes’, Cape Argus, 27 Feb. 1935.

105 CA 3/CT 4/1/5/576, Slums Bill, 1934, Evidence submitted before the parliamentary select committee by delegates representing the Council of the City of Cape Town.

106 ‘Suburban homes at Athlone’, Cape Argus, 14 Jan. 1929.

107 ‘Tackling the slums’, Cape Argus, 31 May 1929.

108 ‘How slums are made’, Cape Argus, 17 Apr. 1926.

109 ‘City housing plan at standstill’, Cape Argus, 23 Feb. 1929.

110 ‘City's housing policy’, Cape Times, 30 Mar. 1933.

111 CA 3/CT 4/1/5/1042, Bokmakirie Caretaker - Town Clerk, Reports on tenants who are in arrears with rents by more than £1, 11 Aug. 1933.

112 CA 3/CT 4/1/5/1042, Bokmakirie Caretaker's Report for week ending 9 Dec. 1933.

113 CA 3/CT 4/1/5/1021, Town Clerk - 33 Bokmakirie residents, 7 Sept. 1932.

114 CA 3/CT 4/1/5/1042, Bokmakirie Caretaker's Report for weeks ending 9 Dec. 1933, 29 Oct. 1933; 1 Oct. 1933; 10 Sept. 1933.

115 ‘Plight of the city's poor’, Cape Argus, 13 Jul. 1935.

116 ‘Clean up Cape Town's plague spots’, Cape Times, 2 Sept. 1933.

117 ‘Homes at 7/- [shillings] a week’, Cape Argus, 25 Jul. 1929.

118 ‘Work of the Marion Institute’, Cape Argus, 12 Mar. 1930.

119 ‘Ndabeni's days numbered’, Cape Times, 1 Jul. 1933.

120 ‘Native followers of European fashions’, Cape Argus, 15 Nov. 1924; W. Beinart, Twentieth-century South Africa (Oxford, 1994), 193.

121 CA 3/CT 4/1/9/1/8, Smit Committee Report, 1941.

122 Wits Historical Papers, Native Economic Commission, Cape Town, Evidence of Rev. Charles Savage, Cape Town, vol. 4, 25 Apr. 1931.

123 Wits Historical Papers, Native Economic Commission, Cape Town, Statement by Mr. G.P. Cook, Cape Town, vol. 4, 24 Apr. 1931.

124 ‘Langa township toured’, Cape Argus, 11 Jan. 1929.

125 ‘Like a village of the dead’, Cape Argus, 27 Sept. 1930.

126 Wits Historical Papers, Native Economic Commission, Evidence of T. Shadick Higgins, Cape Town, vol.4, 28 Apr. 1931.

127 ‘When the last penny has been spent’, Cape Argus, 29 Jul. 1929.

128 Bickford-Smith, Van Heyningen, and Worden, Cape Town in the Twentieth Century, 39.

129 ‘Haunt for Cape Town's criminals’, Cape Argus, 8 Mar. 1930.

130 ‘“No epidemic of crime”’, Cape Argus, 14 Nov. 1922; ‘The native influx’, Cape Argus, 1 Aug. 1923; ‘Increase in crime’, Cape Argus, 24 Jun. 1926; ‘Wave of burglary in Cape Town’, Cape Argus, 19 Nov. 1930. These developments are most vividly analysed in Pinnock, D., The Brotherhoods: Street Gangs and State Control in Cape Town (Cape Town, 1984)Google Scholar.

131 ‘Increase in crime’, Cape Argus, 24 Jun. 1926.

132 ‘The causes of the skolly menace’, Cape Argus, 10 Aug. 1937.

133 ‘Wave of burglary in Cape Town’, Cape Argus, 19 Nov. 1930.

134 ‘Increased crime in Cape Town’, Cape Argus, 22 Jan. 1931.

135 Wits Historical Papers, SAIRR AD843 B52.3, Proceedings of a Departmental committee of inquiry into the alleged increase of serious crime in the Cape Peninsula, 20 Dec. 1943; O.D. Wollheim, ‘The Cape skolly’, Race Relations, 17, 1950, 47; ‘The knife’, Cape Argus, 26 Jun. 1935.

136 ‘Gang warfare in the city’, Cape Times, 28 Jul. 1933.

137 ‘District Six crime revelations’, Cape Times, 21 Feb. 1933; ‘How the Iron gang operates’, Cape Times, 25 Feb. 1933; ‘Raiding the dope sellers of Cape Town’, Cape Argus, 16 Oct. 1926; ‘Room awash with kafir beer’, Cape Argus, 26 Oct. 1926; ‘Dagga traffic on the increase’, Cape Argus, 29 Aug. 1928.

138 ‘Dagga traffic on the increase’, Cape Argus, 29 Jun. 1928; ‘£600 dagga fire’, Cape Argus, 20 Apr. 1935; ‘Story of dagga patch on farm’, Cape Argus, 27 Feb. 1935; Wits Historical Papers, SAIRR AD843 B52.3, Proceeding of a Departmental Committee of Inquiry appointed to inquire into the alleged increase of serious crime in the Cape Peninsula, 20 Dec. 1943, Evidence of Robert Hoedemaker; ‘Possession of dagga’, Cape Argus, 19 Oct. 1935; UG.31-’52, Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Abuse of Dagga, 6; Bickford-Smith, Van Heyningen, and Worden, Cape Town in the Twentieth Century, 105.

139 ‘Dagga traffic on the increase’, Cape Argus, 29 Jun. 1928; ‘£600 dagga fire’, Cape Argus, 20 Apr. 1935.

140 ‘Crime in Union's liquor dens’, Cape Argus, 21 May 1926; ‘Raiding the dope sellers of Cape Town’, Cape Argus, 16 Oct. 1926; ‘Room awash with Kafir beer’, Cape Argus, 26 Oct. 1926; ‘District Six crime revelations’, Cape Argus, 21 Feb. 1933; ‘Peninsula riddled with shebeens’, Cape Argus, 22 Apr. 1944.

141 Wits Historical Papers, SAIRR AD843 B52.3, Proceedings of a Departmental Committee of Inquiry into the alleged increase of serious crime in the Cape Peninsula, 20 Dec. 1943, see especially evidence of Sam Kahn and Betty Sacks.

142 ‘Clean up Cape Town's plague spots’, Cape Times, 2 Sept. 1933.

143 ‘Crime due to the bad housing’, Cape Argus, 7 Aug. 1925.

144 CA 1/CT 420, 20/8/12, Probation Officer's Monthly Report, 29 Mar. 1935.

145 ‘The hell in which the coloured man lives’, The Sun, 8 Jul. 1938.

146 University of Cambridge, African Studies Library, Commission Evidence, Memorandum by J. De Kock, 29 Mar. 1935.

147 UG. 54–’37, Wilcocks Commission Report, 19.

148 University of Cambridge, African Studies Library, Wilcocks Commission Evidence, Memorandum by Josep de Kock, 29 Mar. 1935.

149 CA 1/CT 420, 20/8/2, Probation Officer's Monthly Report, 29 Mar. 1935.

150 Adhikari, ‘“The product of civilisation in its most repellent manifestation”’, 287, 290; Lewis, Between the Wire and the Wall, 12; Bickford-Smith, Van Heyningen, and Worden, Cape Town in the Twentieth Century, 38.

151 Cobley, Class and Consciousness, 39, 43, 61; Report of the Third Census of the Population of the Union, Part X, 3 May 1921.

152 Wits Historical Papers, Native Economic Commission Evidence, Evidence of Baronson Walton Mama, 25 Apr. 1931; Evidence of G.P. Cook, 24 Apr. 1931.

153 ‘Needs of natives at Langa’, Cape Argus, 17 Aug. 1925.

154 On Durban, see La Hausse, ‘Message of the warriors’, 24; La Hausse, Restless identities, 47.

155 ‘A new township in the making’, Cape Argus, 4 Jun. 1927; Musemwa, ‘Aspects of the social and political history’, 36–38.

156 Musemwa, ‘Aspects of the social and political history’, 167.

157 ‘Economic Commission visits slums’, Cape Times, 29 Apr. 1931.

158 ‘Coloured people and education’, Cape Argus, 7 Dec. 1922.

159 ‘Housing week’, Cape Argus, 3 Jun. 1929.

160 ‘Scandal of Cape Town's slums’, Cape Argus, 27 Jun. 1929.

161 Adhikari, ‘“The product of civilisation in its most repellent manifestation”’, 288.

162 Ibid. 287–89.

163 Wits Historical Papers, SAIRR AD843 B52.3, Proceedings of a Departmental Committee of Inquiry into the alleged increase of serious crime in the Cape Peninsula, 20 Dec. 1943, Evidence of Robert Hoedemaker.

164 Wits Historical Papers, SAIRR AD843 B52.3, Proceedings of a Departmental committee of inquiry to inquire into the alleged increase of serious crime in the Cape Peninsula, Evidence of Major Claude Myles, 20 Dec. 1943.

165 ‘The Cape Town skolly menace’, The Sun, 20 Aug. 1937.

166 CA CSC 1/3/1/15, Appeal in criminal case of Achmat Salie, 10 Oct. 1930; On Trafalgar High School, see Adhikari, M., Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community (Cape Town, 2006), 117Google Scholar.

167 Iliffe, African Poor, 137–8.

168 Bickford-Smith, Van Heyningen, and Worden, Cape Town in the Twentieth Century, 43.

169 CA 4/CT 4/1/71, Letter from Medical Officer of Health – Sanitary Inspector E. Hadley, 16 Jul. 1934, enclosing letter from ‘Inhabitants’ of the Kensington Estate, 15 Jul. 1934; B. Kinkead-Weekes, ‘Africans in Cape Town: state policy and popular resistance, 1936–73’, (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992), 14.

170 Ibid. 338–45.

171 ‘Among the wilds at Windermere,’ Cape Argus, 9 Aug. 1930.

172 ‘Crime menace on the Cape Flats’, Cape Argus, 9 Sept. 1930.