This section holds one page for each way the valley came to exchange goods, labour, money, and land. It takes its name from the Markets form of the TIME model, in which people organise through exchange at a price. Money and Land is the main story that ties the pages together, so it is the best place to start.
Reading these pages
The facts on the Markets pages carry fact-status tags. Their comparisons with San and Khoekhoe ways of holding land, and their reading of what each change meant, are the Forum’s interpretation and carry no tag.
The pages
- Money and Land. How money came to the valley, and how it became tied to owning land.
- The Cattle Trade. The first market: Khoekhoe cattle bartered for metal, beads, tobacco, and brandy.
- Land as Property. From group land to loan farms, quitrent, freehold plots, and land held in trust.
- Loan Farms and Quitrent. How a licence to graze became a farm that could be sold, read through TIME as an early form of the market.
- The Caledon Code. The law of 1809 that tied Khoekhoe workers to a fixed home, a pass, and a registered contract, until 1828.
- Money and Banks. From company coins and paper rixdollars to sterling and the Overberg’s banks.
- The Mission Economy. Supplies, crafts, wages, and land without title at Genadendal.
Each page gives the sources for its facts and names who gained and who lost from each change. Money amounts are given in the currency of the time, such as rixdollars or pounds, with the year.
Markets in the TIME model
TIME reads the valley’s history through four forms of organisation: Tribes, Institutions, Markets, and Emergent. Each new form is added to the ones before it, and none comes to a close. The general model has its home on the BioConomy wiki, at The TIME Framework.
In the Forum’s reading, Markets has been the most dominant form in the valley from about 1860 to today. It shows in wages and prices, and in property bought and sold in Greyton. This reading carries no fact-status tag, and residents may read the history differently. The Valley Through TIME explains the dates, and why Genadendal and Greyton moved at different paces.
Have your say
If you hold records of trade, wages, or land in the valley, or family stories about them, contact the moderators via How to Submit.
Related
References
- BioConomy wiki. The TIME Framework. The general definition of the four forms.
- Ronfeldt, D. (1996). Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks: A Framework About Societal Evolution. RAND. The TIMN framework on which the TIME model builds.