37. The enticement of African women by white men near a shop in Umzinto and by a white post-cart driver are described in the testimony of Qalizwe, James Stuart Archive Vol. 5, 233-234. See also complaints made to the 1906-7 Natal Native Commission about white men luring African women (Natal archives, Pietermaritzburg, 1/NCP/8/3/76). On women and prostitution in South Africa see Van Onselen (1982); Bonner (1990); Jochelson (2001). In other parts of Africa, see Powdermaker (1962), Bujra (1975); Schuster (1979), Bledsoe (1980), Obbo (1980), Parpart (1988), MacGaffey (1988), and White (1990). See Barnes (1999) on how access to housing could shape sex exchanges in colonial Zimbabwe. Standing (1992) provides an excellent anthropological review of how narrow notions of "prostitution" can be inappropriately applied to Africa.


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