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Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880-1963

Sean Redding, Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880-1963. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xi + 266 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

This study of the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape focuses on the ritual of taxation and tax payment as a means of examining the nature of Africans' relationship to the colonial state. Redding notes that compliance with tax laws was the norm during most of the period under study. She seeks to integrate the persistence of that norm and the moments it broke down - for example during a rebellion in 1880, the Wellington Buthelezi movement of the 1920s, ...

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