Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One. Violence, allegiance, and authority in the making of kingdoms and colony
  • "Chief by the people": Nomsimekwana Mdluli, security, and authority in the time before tribes
  • "He said he wants to be registered as a chief": Hereditary chiefs and government tribes, 1843-1905
  • Part Two. The violence of young men, forced removals, and betterment
  • "Ngangezwe claims to be an hereditary chief": Organizing authority by wards and war, 1905-1930
  • "They refuse to go to other chiefs' areas": The Nagle dam and forced removals, 1930-1950
  • "He said that he wanted the tribe to decide": boundaries and betterment, 1948-1971
  • "Only the fourth chief": Ethnic politics and land jurisdiction, 1971-1988
  • Part Three. Civil war in South Africa
  • "Because my people are in the MDM, I have to be with them": Ethnic and African nationalist politics during civil war, 1983-1990
  • "They were worried about the way our chief was managing his nation": Land, authority, and belonging, 1990-1996.