ABSTRACT
To keep the place of labour migrants means, amongst other things, that their kinsmen in the rural area must make sure that there will always be enough land for them. Thus the same factors which make it difficult for a Tonga to take his family to the towns, also make it difficult for him to stay in the towns when he is rio longer employed. The Tonga political system shows relatively little continuity of titles of office and produces great numbers of rival claimants for political titles. The chapter analyses the problem of labour migration in greater detail in forthcoming monograph The Politics of Kinship among the Tonga. The Tonga live on the western shores of the northern half of Lake Nyasa, at a distance of about 1,000 miles from the main employment centres in the Rhodesias and of about 1,500 to 2,000 miles from those in the Union of South Africa.
