By Susanne M. Klausen (auth.)
Using unique basic assets, this publication uncovers and analyzes for the 1st time the politics of fertility and the conflict over contraception in South Africa from 1910 (the 12 months the rustic used to be shaped) to 1945. It examines the character and achievements of the South African birth-control stream in pre-apartheid South Africa, together with the institution of voluntary birth-control organisations in city centres, the nationwide birth-control coalition, and the health center practices of the country's first birth-control clinics. The e-book spotlights vital actors similar to the beginning controllers themselves, the ladies of all 'races' who applied the clinics' prone and the dept of Public overall healthiness, putting those inside of a global in addition to nationwide context.
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The fact that nearly 400 000 of our small white population are so poor that they are dependent on state and charitable aid for their very existence, is however our gravest cause for concern. 103 Feeding the elites’ sense of urgency was the growing conviction that poor whites might well be biologically inferior. Until the 1930s, agencies attempting to “rehabilitate” the poor whites interpreted their predicament in environmentalist terms. Exposure to blacks in the countryside and urban slums caused poor whites to “sink” to an unacceptable level.
We would have had a people which could have called itself an A1 people and which could have prided itself on being among the foremost nations of the world. Unfortunately we are not an A1 people today,”63 and other members of Parliament, such as Dr. M. 70 Statistics indicating a crisis in white health abounded. 74 in Denmark). 75 Concern regarding white maternal mortality dates back to the beginning of Union. 78 In the 1920s, concern about maternal health grew, leading to developments such as the establishment of a chair of Gynaecology at the Witwatersrand University Medical School.
In 1912 the South African Native National Congress was formed (renamed the African National Congress in 1923), and in the years immediately following the First World War, Africans implemented a campaign against the pass laws and a series of strikes in Cape Town and on the Witwatersrand (or Rand), the industrial region surrounding Johannesburg. In the countryside, the Industrial and Commercial Workers” Union (ICU) emerged in 1919 as a trade union but it quickly flourished as a mass movement of protest against rural workers” poor living and working conditions.