Annual report on the Bechuanaland Protectorate / Commonwealth Relations Office.

  • Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations.
Date:
[1953]
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Credit: Annual report on the Bechuanaland Protectorate / Commonwealth Relations Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PART II CHAPTER I POPULATION e last census was taken in 1946. The figures were Europeans 2,379, *icans 292,755, Coloured persons and Asiatics 1,176 giving an average isity of 1-07 per square mile. There has been little change in the popula- o since the census. /ital statistics are maintained for Europeans only. There were 65 births 1 14 deaths during the year which gives birth and death rates of 28*2 16*1 per thousand respectively. The great majority of the people live in the eastern and north-western *ts of the Territory ; about one half of the population lives in villages 1,000 or more inhabitants though many of these spend a large part of ir time at outlying cattle posts. CHAPTER] II OCCUPATIONS WAGES AND LABOUR ORGANIZATIONS fer ninety-five per cent of the population is engaged in stock raising, few Africans are employed as herds and drovers by European farmers, t the great majority are themselves the owners of the livestock, which | cared for on a family or tribal basis. Native law and custom make it 5 duty of every male member of the tribe to do his part in the tending the family livestock, and, in consequence, there is little paid employ- nt in the Protectorate. The principal occupations of the small number wage earners are : Approximate Average number wages per mensem ivemment Service . . 1,500 £5 to £56 riculture. . . 3,000 £3 ilding . . . . . 300 £6 ade and Industry. . . 1,800 £6 imestic Service . . . 2,000 £2 15s. 0d.