No Fixed Abode: the Poorest of the Poor and Elusive Identities in Rural South Africa
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Author: Michael de Jongh
Publication: Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 28, Number 2
Date: June 2002
No Fixed Abode: the Poorest of the Poor and Elusive Identities in Rural South Africa
Author: Michael de Jongh
Publication: Journal of Southern African Studies, Volume 28, Number 2
Date: June 2002
Abstract
The itinerant sheep-shearing Karretjie (donkey cart) People of the arid Great Karoo of South Africa are among the poorest of the poor. They represent a rural underclass. Although they trace decent from both the early KhoeKhoen and the San, there is no historical continuity between the present-day impoverished foragers and their pre-colonial nomadic Forebears.