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    Indirect rule was a colonial policy that established native administrations, courts, and treasuries in accordance with customary law to ensure cooperation from traditional leaders while reducing the financial burden on colonial governments. Other key concepts included direct rule, which sought to assimilate natives under English common law; terra nullius, which held that unproductively used land was not owned; lex nullius, which viewed natives as without law; and capitalism, which drove colonial expansion to enlarge European wealth. The Union period unified the four British colonies in South Africa, while policies like assimilation, reverse urbanization, and primogeniture imposed European culture and authority.

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    Indirect rule was a colonial policy that established native administrations, courts, and treasuries in accordance with customary law to ensure cooperation from traditional leaders while reducing the financial burden on colonial governments. Other key concepts included direct rule, which sought to assimilate natives under English common law; terra nullius, which held that unproductively used land was not owned; lex nullius, which viewed natives as without law; and capitalism, which drove colonial expansion to enlarge European wealth. The Union period unified the four British colonies in South Africa, while policies like assimilation, reverse urbanization, and primogeniture imposed European culture and authority.

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    Indirect rule was a colonial policy that established native administrations, courts, and treasuries in accordance with customary law to ensure cooperation from traditional leaders while reducing the financial burden on colonial governments. Other key concepts included direct rule, which sought to assimilate natives under English common law; terra nullius, which held that unproductively used land was not owned; lex nullius, which viewed natives as without law; and capitalism, which drove colonial expansion to enlarge European wealth. The Union period unified the four British colonies in South Africa, while policies like assimilation, reverse urbanization, and primogeniture imposed European culture and authority.

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    RPR 210 NOTES

    Terminology
    direct rule - a policy initially applied by the colonial British government where
    they sought largely to assimilate the ‘natives’ under English common law
    indirect rule - a policy later applied by the colonial British government
    whereby ‘native’ administrations, courts and treasuries were established in the
    Cape and Natal colonies in accordance with their understanding of customary
    law to ensure the cooperation of traditional leaders and communities and to
    relieve the financial burden on the colonial governments
    terra nullius - the principle that where land has not been productively used by
    the people inhabiting it, it was not owned by those people who lived on and
    otherwise used the land
    lex nullius - the notion of colonists that the ‘natives’ were without law
    capitalism - the economic policy and system in terms of which European
    countries sought to enlarge their wealth by expanding their assets and
    domains to foreign lands and that was therefore one of the primary drivers of
    colonialism
    Enlightenment - a cultural and intellectual movement in the 1600s and 1700s
    that served to support broadly acceptable social knowledge and developments
    with the premises of materialism and humanism as opposed to tradition
    policy of assimilation - a policy compelling people not originally subject to a
    culture or law to embrace that culture or law as their own and conform to it in
    their practice
    Union period - the period during which the four British colonies of the Cape,
    Natal, Orange River and Transvaal were unified to form the Union of South
    Africa
    Reverse urbanisation - a process by means of which the government sought to
    compel people who had moved from rural areas to urban areas to return to
    the rural areas
    rule of primogeniture - a rule of succession whereby the oldest male relative
    of the deceased inherited his intestate estate and women could not inherit
    from their spouses
    patriarchy - a social system in terms of which men hold the dominant position
    and positions of authority largely to the exclusion of women
    legal positivism - a jurisprudential theory of law that is based on the idea that
    law can be found in tangible sources that we can verify scientifically or
    logically, and rejects morality or ethics as a source of law
    rule of law - the principle that the law is supreme in a legal order and that no
    state action is legitimate unless provided for by validly adopted law prior to the
    state taking the action

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