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Three Wise Monkeys - The Quest for Wealth Without Work - cover

Three Wise Monkeys - The Quest for Wealth Without Work

Charles van Onselen

Publisher: Jonathan Ball

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The Three Wise Monkeys trilogy culminates with a forensic examination of South Africa's long struggle to suppress gambling, and especially lotteries. The opposition of the Calvinist churches – both Afrikaans and English-speaking – had its counterpart in the eager embrace of games of chance by the white working class on the Witwatersrand. Focusing on the career of Rufe Naylor, an Australian bookmaker, horse dealer and entrepreneur who, with the help of a defrocked Portuguese Catholic priest, ran the Lourenço Marques Lottery, The Quest for Wealth without Work shows how
the efforts of church and state to control the leisure time and morals of the working class intersected with the need to ensure the flow of cheap mine labour from Mozambique. Ultimately, in the suppression of the Lourenço Marques Lottery – and in campaigns against pinball machines, dog
racing and other 'social evils' – can be seen the emerging outlines of the apartheid police state.
Available since: 03/23/2023.
Print length: 238 pages.

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