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The hut tax was a type of taxation introduced by British colonialists and in Africa on a per hut or household basis. It was variously payable in money, labour, grain or stock and benefited the colonial authorities in four related ways: it raised money; it supported the currency; it broadened the cash economy, aiding further development; and it forced Africans to labour in the colonial economy.〔 Households which had survived on, and stored their wealth in cattle ranching now sent members to work for the colonialists in order to raise cash with which to pay the tax. The colonial economy depended upon black African labour to build new towns and railways, and in southern Africa to work in the rapidly developing mines. ==South Africa== By 1908 the following hut taxes were imposed in southern Africa: * In Natal, under Law 13 of 1857, 14 shillings per hut occupied by natives. Natives that lived in European style houses with only one wife were exempt from the tax. * In the Cape Colony, under Act 37 of 1884, 10 shillings per hut with exclusions for the elderly and infirm. * In the Transkei, 10 shillings per hut.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hut tax」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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