These new ideas of spatial and temporal regulation were taken up and partly adopted, partly satirised, in popu- lar cultural forms throughout the colonial period. Their numbers grew as the industrial, manufacturing and service sectors grew alongside the min- ing industry, sucking in more labour, and as pressure on black rural dwellers sharply increased after the Land Act, which forced numerous whole families off their land. We will not live there again. The they emerged, experiences book seeks the cultural they were created to speak to. Single women, women deserted by their migrant husbands, women who made a living in shebeens, sang songs of affliction and defiance accompanied by provocative famo dancing.
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