'Hooligans, spivs and loafers'? : the politics of vagrancy in 1960s southern Rhodesia

In 1960, amidst the most violent period of protest since conquest, the Southern Rhodesian government implemented a new Vagrancy Act alongside a range of repressive legislation. The Act's origins lay in a particular analysis of the social origins of unrest. It was unprecedented in promising not...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alexander, J
Format: Journal article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2012