Investing in Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Colonial ‘South Africa’

Grietjie Verhoef ()

Chapter Chapter 3 in Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2020, pp 57-83 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Grietjie Verhoef sets out the first investigation into the business activities of women in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial context of the Cape Colony. Women were active in entrepreneurial activities under Dutch rule. British colonial occupation changed the statutory environment of business operation, but women still performed active business roles, often without being the official owner of the enterprise. The actual activities of women identified are explained, as well as their traceable investments. The transition from gender-defined roles to active engagement in economic life is investigated, using the limited primary resources accessible. The invisible women enter a realm of action and strategy hitherto not disclosed in South African history.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33412-3_3

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