Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map
- Foreword
- PART 1 Introduction: Africa is Seldom What It Seems
- PART 2 Introduction: Fossils and Genes: A New Anthropology of Evolution
- PART 3 Introduction: The Emerging Stone Age
- PART 4 Introduction: The Myth of the Vacant Land
- PART 5 Introduction: The Racial Paradox: Sterkfontein, Smuts and Segregation
- Chapter 12 The Legacy of Gold
- Chapter 13 The Story of Sterkfontein Since 1895
- Chapter 14 The South African War of 1899–1902 in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
- Chapter 15 White South Africa's ‘Weak Sons’: Poor Whites and the Hartbeespoort Dam
- Epilogue: Voice of Politics, Voice of Science: Politics and Science After 1945
- Notes, references and recommended reading
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Chapter 14 - The South African War of 1899–1902 in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
from PART 5 - Introduction: The Racial Paradox: Sterkfontein, Smuts and Segregation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Map
- Foreword
- PART 1 Introduction: Africa is Seldom What It Seems
- PART 2 Introduction: Fossils and Genes: A New Anthropology of Evolution
- PART 3 Introduction: The Emerging Stone Age
- PART 4 Introduction: The Myth of the Vacant Land
- PART 5 Introduction: The Racial Paradox: Sterkfontein, Smuts and Segregation
- Chapter 12 The Legacy of Gold
- Chapter 13 The Story of Sterkfontein Since 1895
- Chapter 14 The South African War of 1899–1902 in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
- Chapter 15 White South Africa's ‘Weak Sons’: Poor Whites and the Hartbeespoort Dam
- Epilogue: Voice of Politics, Voice of Science: Politics and Science After 1945
- Notes, references and recommended reading
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Index
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- A Search for OriginsScience, History and South Africa's ‘Cradle of Humankind’, pp. 232 - 247Publisher: Wits University PressPrint publication year: 2007