Subject index and checklist of history and archaeology dissertations and research essays submitted at the University of Botswana, 1976 - 1998

Four MA dissertations and 222 BA research essays are listed alphabetically, and indexed by reference number under three subject categories-geographical area (by district, etc.), ethnic group, and a general subject index of 42 headings. All but 31 of the 226 alphabetical entries contain research solely on Botswana: the other countries being South Africa (12 entries), Zimbabwe (11), Namibia (6), Angola and Zambia (1 each). The most researched district of Botswana is Central (54 entries), followed by Kgatleng and Kweneng (25 each), North-East (24), South-East (16), Southern (9), Ngamiland (6), Chobe and Ghanzi (3 each), and Kgalagadi (2). The subject index of 29 ethnic groups ranges from Afrikaners (2 entries) and Amandebele (2) through Babirwa (7), Bakalanga (24), Bakgatla (27), Bakhalagari (4), Bakwena (21), Bangwato (19), Basarwa (5), and Batlharo (1), to Indians (3) and Ovambanderu (2). The general subject index ranges from Administration (29 entries), Agriculture (18), and Archaeology (21), through Biography (28), Cattle (7), Chieftainship (27), Class formation (7), Councils (7), Economic development (23), Education (14), and Heritage management (7), to Labour and labour migration (7), Medicine (4), Nationalism (13), Religion (15), Serfdom, servitude and slavery (7), Settlement history (19), Trade and commerce (13), Trade unions (6), and Urbanization (15). With the notable exception of one MA dissertation, there is a lack of cultural studies which may partly be attributed to research being done instead under the aegis of other departments in the Faculty of Humanities

Land Loss, Labour and Dependence: The Impact of Colonialism on the Southern Tswana: c. 1870-1900.

The central concern of this thesis is the changing nature of production and socio-economic relationships among the Southern Tswana of the northern Gape under the impact of colonisation in the late nineteenth century. It considers the importance of the region's ecological limitations which, combined with its proximity to the industrialising centre of Kimberley, contrasts the Southern Tswana's experience with that of other colonised peoples in more agriculturally suited regions of southern Africa. These combined factors greatly shortened the duration of prosperity enjoyed by African 'independent producers' and magnified the impact of colonial repression, especially in land alienation. The thesis traces the steady closing of the region's economically viable options under the impact of merchant, speculative and mining capital, and examines the extent and consequences of the Southern Tswana's participation in early diamond prospecting as well as their exploitation in the 187Os and 80s of Kimberley's provisioning and firewood markets. The thesis also investigates the development of colonial policy towards land ownership and African administration and illustrates the conflict between the missionary/merchant's Cape 'liberalism' of fostering African 'peasant' prosperity and the capital interests of land speculation and Kimberley's mining industry. It concludes with the conquest and subordination of the Southern Tswana following the rinderpest epidemic and Langeberg 'rebellion' of 1896-7 and the consequent triumph of the colonial state in support of capitalist employers and land speculators