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By Nadine Gordimer
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
For years, it were what's known as a "deteriorating situation." Now far and wide South Africa the towns are battlegrounds. The individuals of the Smales family—liberal whites—are rescued from the phobia through their servant, July, who leads them to shelter in his village. What occurs to the Smaleses and to July—the shifts in personality and relationships—gives us an unforgettable inspect the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings among blacks and whites.
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In the British Empire, there was a long tradition of sharing power with local residents through legislative councils. As these created a body of local law, so British statute law took on a mainly residual importance. In the former colonies of white settlement — Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Cape and Natal — the councils had originally comprised a majority of officials sitting alongside a minority of government-nominated representatives of colonial society; in the course of time, settlers gained the right to elect their own representatives, who eventually became a self-governing majority.
Thus with the expansion of British power in the Gold Coast and Nigeria the relative importance of the legislative council declined. This was part of a more general British trend to restrict African participation in central government. It was one thing to allow this to loyal' black Englishmen' within the original colony. It was a very different matter to allow such men a share, however slight, in ruling the newly-subdued peoples of the protectorates: what might be allowed to white settlers in East Africa could not be allowed to blacks in the Gold Coast and Nigeria.
II Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 j-9 INTRODUCTION republics of Central America, but from 1927 it did protect a locally dominant economic interest: the holdings of Firestone Rubber. Elsewhere in Africa, US investment was less conspicuous but more important. American finance and technical expertise played a considerable role in mining. In 1906 Ryan and Guggenheim helped to initiate diamond-mining in Kasai; in 1917 J. P. Morgan and Newmont helped set up the Anglo American Corporation in South Africa.