A tapestry of people: The growth of population in the province of the Western Cape

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dc.creatorHorner, Dudley
dc.creatorWilson, Francis
dc.date2012-12-03T12:05:28Z
dc.date2012-12-03T12:05:28Z
dc.date2008-10
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:05:02Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:05:02Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionThe best place to begin a study of human settlement is with climate. Most of the Western Cape province - the land lying north of a line running parallel to the southern coast approximately 100 kilometers inland, from Worcester to Uniondale - is too dry for arable farming. And the rain which does fall south of the long range of mountains tends to come in the winter months which is suitable for wheat but not for tropical cereals. Thus when ironworking, Bantu-speaking, people began to move east and then south from the Niger-Congo area in a great wave of migration that began some 2000 years ago they moved into the wetter eastern part of what is now South Africa where there was good grazing for their cattle and where the crops they knew - sorghum, millet and, later maize, - would grow...
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/34
dc.identifier.ris TY - Report DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - A tapestry of people: The growth of population in the province of the Western Cape TI - A tapestry of people: The growth of population in the province of the Western Cape UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/34 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/34
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSouthern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.titleA tapestry of people: The growth of population in the province of the Western Cape
dc.typeReport
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceSALDRU Reporten_ZA
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