How did european manage to surmount the proble. Of shortage of labour in africa?
Answers
European employers in Africa adopted various measures to recruit and retain labour.
(a) Imposed heavy taxes which could be paid only by working for wages in plantation and duties.
(b) Inheritance laws were changed to displace the peasants from their lands.
© Mine workers were confined in compounds and were not allowed to move about freely
Explanation:
1) Heavy taxes were imposed which could be paid only by working for wages on plantations and mines
2) Inheritance laws were changed so that peasants were displaced from land only one member of a family was allowed to inherit land, as a result of which the others were pushed into the labour market.
3) Rinderpest arrived in Africa in the late 1880s.
Entering Africa in the east, underpest moved west like forest fire, reaching Anca's Atlantic coast in 1892 It reached the Cape (Africa's southernmost tip) five years langt, Along the way rinderpest killed 90 per cent of the cattle.
The loss of cattle destroyed Afincan livelihoods Planters, mine owners and colonial governments now successfully monopolised what scarce cartle resources remained, to strengthen their power and to force Africans into the labour market)