Local warlords under apartheid played classic indirect-rule politics

Evidence

Throughout much of KwaZulu and its areas of emigration, warlords who controlled their own enforcers played the classic game of indirect rule. Within their own territories, they recruited and disciplined migrant workers; operated protection rackets; benefited from monopolies of such commodities as beer; and collected a variety of payments from local merchants. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 592

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial labor regimes depend on oscillating absorption and expulsion of migrant workers. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 552; Indirect rule made customary law into an administrative tool of colonial control — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 70; Indirect rule governed through native leaders who relayed colonial policy and exacted obedience — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 849 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Warlords believed they could manipulate outside intervention to their advantage #expands (0.90) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 630
• Indirect rule made customary law into an administrative tool of colonial control #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 70
• Indirect rule governed through native leaders who relayed colonial policy and exacted obedience #expands (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 849