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Water as agent for social change, 1900–1939 : two case studies of developmental state approaches in establishing irrigation schemes

Visser, Wessel (Historical Association of South Africa, 2018-11)

The advent of the Union of South Africa in 1910, and especially the creation of the Union’s Irrigation Department in 1912, signalled the beginning of large-scale state investment in water storage infrastructure and the ...