Cheap native labor was South Africa’s natural resource

Evidence

34 “What an abundance of rain and grass was to New Zealand mutton, what a plenty of cheap grazing land was to Australian wool, what the fertile prairie acres were to Canadian wheat, cheap native labour was to South African mining and industrial enterprise” (Kiewiet, op. cit., p. 96). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2334

Categorization

• XREF: The reduction of native labour to a natural resource parallels Arendt’s main-text argument about colonial exploitation treating people as raw material — mechanism-level claim for the foundations module. — connects to: Cheap native labor, not gold, was South Africa’s permanent attraction — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 513; Race-based dignity made manual labor degrading for Boers; Racism in South Africa stems from its economic structure, not petty official bias (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2334

Broader Connections

• Racism in South Africa stems from its economic structure, not petty official bias #expands (0.78)
• Race ideology overrides rational profit calculations in South African economy #contradicts (0.75)
• Race-based dignity made manual labor degrading for Boers #expands (0.70)