South Africa: Colonial Tax Records Hold 3 Lessons for South Africa Today - Economic Historian

[AllAfrica - Africa] - 23/01/2026
[The Conversation Africa] In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa's Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he complained about the idle chatter of townsmen in Stellenbosch and uncooperative taxpayers. It is a tiny window on the regular (…)
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